I absolutely loved this series! The hand animation and just charm in Parsnip is unmatched and i loved that as well as the dark undertones and branching endings.
The Testimony of Trixie Glimmer Smith, while losing the oustanding art, made up for it with a killer story and characters as well as really characterizing themes, parsnips being especially remarkable, with the random trumpets showing his unpredictablility and personality.
three lesbians in a barrow, while shorter, had more character development than the previous titles, a notable instance being Nikita's ear being damaged in a fight, which i thought as a character design quirk in The Testimony, and i liked the interaction mechanics, stop here if you don't want to read a rant about representation and natural feeling chacterization. Just know i loved this game series and i hope to be able to play more of them in the future, Love pretty much everything about it and could do a whole nother paragraph on the wordbuilding!
As a preface, i have nothing against trans people and i think that gender dysmorphia is a very real, treatable condition that effects thousands of people.
While trixie being trans is something i liked, with it being foreshadowed throughout the first half of Testimony, through things like the ear patch and her line about "growing boobs", Tabitha being trans actually slightly soured her character for me, there was no lead up or plot impact to her being trans, with the problems Trixie shows from her transition not afflicting Tabitha and (even taking into consideration "the queerest town in the country") it felt to somewhat overrepresent the population of trans people, the chances of two people in a small town being trans, semi friends, and not knowing it ("are those oestrogen patches on your ear?") is so low that it doesn't make much narrative sense. If i missed something in my playthrough that changes this please point it out! it just seems a bit contrived to me.
shit that was long.