A fantastic quiet adventure in the flavor of Treasure Planet and Polar Express.
CGs will pop up once every 20 lines or so, making this read like an animatic. There's a strong sense of color, contrast, framing and texture, featuring the same eye candy brush as that Blaidd comic. When there's a candle, the room and the sprites will be draped in orange, and the outside world is a consistent melancholic purple. It's hella moody. Not to mention the prop design, papers piling and aged books and the worst doctor's handwriting documents will decorate every BG. It's a case of an artist leading a vn that could be felt in every frame. There are some play with the transitions too, like the zoom out followed by the sudden shift to snow in the opening, so clever.
There is some take with the narrative style, the protagonist is a total loot goblin, always rpg-style rummaging over our npc's house, this gets funny at times. The story itself is a literal call to adventure fantasy that's been done to bits, and quite a slow one too, but I never once felt impatient with it. No avant-garde character cooking or modern story structures here, and it doesn't need one. A comic creator is exploring this new medium, and it is a joy to experience.
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The jam theme is extremely prevalent, the premise of an ever flying ship literally powered by the dead is pretty on the nose for the message of dealing with loss. The climax, featuring the first ray of morning sun is as predictable as it is satisfying.
The lion brothers are HOT. Everyone in this vn is hot. Please please please make more stuff!