Moar chattercap is always better! It has taken me a while to play this demo but I finally had some time.
— [I played as femmce]
Yikes this is a little too real on the depression front. Both (all three?) characters seem very reasonable so far aside from the stinger near the end, I mean we’ll see if notHusband is even a human in the first place. For most stories, I would get very upset that she can see all these pretty notable changes in her husbands’ behavior, yet do nothing about it, but the way she rationalizes so much away because of her depression makes it make sense. Aside from the confrontation / eyes moment, I can understand how she’s deciding not to push things even as his differences from her husband grow more and more stark and ominous.
As a girlie with diagnosed depression, I thought her experiences seemed extremely relatable. Especially when you try to talk to your friends, it’s too much, and you know you can’t expect regular people to basically be therapists so you end up isolating yourself. So real. Luckily, my situation has improved from those times, though of course I still have depression, since it can’t grow legs and disco dance itself out the back door.
I love the water theme quite a bit, the kelpies, god of the sea, underwater scenery for when she’s feeling underwater, it’s all so nicely cohesive. I love the ‘white thing on the beach’ consistency as well, is it a veil, a boat, something else? I love the set design too, each location really gets the mood across. The only thing I think would be better is if we could see what the studio looked like before the notHusband situation. Of course, I know that could be extremely difficult to draw.
I’m curious about throwing out all but 5 of pills from each container. Especially because the mc says she ‘knows why he did it’. I originally thought, oh that’s a countdown. Five days for a game that will last a total of 7, leaves some room for if you change things around a bit, plus I think he does it after the first day. So, countdown…but her comment makes me think something else may be going on. Hard to say until the whole game is released.
I have all of these ideas and inklings for what exactly could be transpiring. I’m excited to see where it goes. I’ll probably play a second time and pick other dialogue options when I have more free time, see where that leads. All in all, this is great, as always! Also, I appreciated all of the choices in the beginning. I am actually ace, and I definitely sent screenshots to several ace friends as a ‘lookit guys!’ moment. Though, I did pick allo because I don’t mind content in fiction.
All in all, this is a great showing so far and I’m excited to see where it leads! I’m also excited for anything else you release, as usually, hahaha.