Had an absolute blast, the premise really comes across. It's difficult on my hands, but that's fine imo. The challenge felt really tuned to its genre and it was an interesting tension to have the precision platforming demand a very specific action from my hands. The story was very charming and friction-less (everyone finds a way to get along quite well!) which contrasted so uniquely with the very considered friction of the puzzle platforming design. I felt the most delighted when the roles and actions of each mare had to be considered in order to traverse the puzzle. The tight timings were brutally fair in a way I personally enjoyed, with exception of the last two to three puzzles. Loved a CTF double jump! The sterilization radiation spikes felt like a very funny inclusion. When things got frustrating, I almost worried that Irradiance had something against me for letting all of these "delete my balls" spikes permeate the whole forest like that when she can just zap me away at a whim, but that's just diagetic thinking- I appreciated the escalating difficulty. At the same time, the conversation where she compliments the main character had me wondering if she was interested in some bodily transformation of her own somehow, too. Overall, a lovely game, excellent work and remarkable polish. Great work!
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thank you for the kind comment! i'm glad the story worked well for you.
there were a couple ways i thought about taking the story with irradiance but in the end i think i wanted her to just be asexual, with her interest in the sex driven primarily by its utility for the community, and for her to have a kind of almost detached/analytical perspective if that makes sense. i think this is a kind of fun perspective to have in the game as it's ultimately kind of how i end up feeling about my sex games... like, yeah, there's sex, but is it getting the job done?
the difficulty is turning out to be an interesting facet of the game. so far most of the feedback about it has been negative, which is extremely fair imo... i am very glad to hear it mostly works for you.