Okay, that was a great game!!! I loved the art direction, both for the sprites and the CGs, the GUI, the storyline and the character writing! The music was amazing too, which, well, was obviously something to be expected from this game!
But as someone who's been a theatre kid and musical theatre nerd for more than half my life (fell into it at 13, and I'm literally turning 27 today lol), I WAS SO EXCITED TO TRY TO CATCH THE REFERENCES, and you guys delivered, I didn't have all of them!! But a lot of my favourite musicals were there (The Phantom being my absolute favourite which, well, is certainly an inspiration for the plot, that and Heathers I think with how it develops??). I'm also unsure but I think I caught a reference to Death Becomes Her?? Because if so, OMG, recent discovery (I mean, it's a recent musical lol), but literally became my second favourite of all time, THIS ONE IS AMAZING!!!! But also, with Flor as a creative director, I was waiting, waiting, waiting (Penelope) for the Epic references, and I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED EITHER. SO yes, as a musical amateur, I really LOVED reading them!
To get back to the game, I did appreciate how Jaime and Maxim, while being badasses, were also literal musical nerds: it gave them more dimension than their assigned trope! But the direction of the story was great, as it reminded me of the Phantom of the opera, with Jaime obviously being Raoul and Maxim the phantom (and the fact I named my MC Christian after Christine only made it more savoury lol). Also, regarding MC, I did enjoy the fact we were allowed to play them as UNHINGED, like the little drawings that would appear depending on... let's say, some interactions of ours, were a HILARIOUS addition, and I indeed found this game very funny!
So far, I got the ending where we date Jaime, and I think the ending where we romance both (unsure as the CG was focused on Maxim), but I'm going to play more to get more, especially my yaoi ending with Maxim and Jaime, they are shippable loool!
It was an impressive NaNoRenO entry, congrats to all the team!!!