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I played this game as blind as I could. 

I saw his face, I saw the title of the game, and I hit download. 

The aesthetic of this game is absolutely enchanting, and the artwork is so lovely. 

Playing this game was like looking at an old snapshot and thinking very wistfully about the person whom is the contents of it, which is very apt considering the aesthetic and the ending. 

The whole thing makes it feel like Pasha is wisps of smoke, I personally felt honored that he liked me enough to pass through my fingers on the way out rather than never interacting with me. 

His background and how everything came about for him was so out of left field that I nearly felt like I was playing a comedy vn for a second, if not for the seriousness and the gravity everything else is treated with. 

I feel warmly that even if Pasha ultimately has to let MC go, that necklace will stay in a place of honor, either on their person or in their house, and Pasha will always carry warm and fond memories even if he goes and does other things, or finds other people (If I have read correctly in his info screen, he later gets married). 

As the game aptly puts it: You are two ships passing through the night, signaling to each other, letting them know you are there, and you see them too. 

Beautiful and melancholy game, amazing work on all fronts. 

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Thank you for the kind comments!!

I just want to clarify here... I am very, very aware of how much explicitly stating his background detracts from the game and how intense of a tonal whiplash it is. (If it was tonally different, more action-oriented maybe, I would've gotten away with it...) Initially, I left it vague because I thought it contributed to the vibe that MC can't fully "know" him (which was much better) but I deliberately decided to put it there because, in the initial release, certain bad actors attacked me anonymously because they assumed that this was somehow a Pro-Russia propaganda piece because they assumed Pasha was a modern day Russian soldier when even from inception he's been a Cold War soviet spy sent to America. I thought it was irresponsible to leave it vague considering that was brought into the conversation and the time period of when this was published because of said assumptions so ultimately I decided to compromise on ruining the tone a little bit just to have his background explicitly stated in the work because I assumed everything else would move past that part.

Anyway, I rarely reply to comments, but I decided to explain my piece here because I was wondering if people are going to notice that (and they did!) so now they have an explanation about why that part was put in

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Rest assured that it d isn't ruin it for me! 

It didn't completely yank me out of the story, I just thought it was rather funny, and I understand where you are coming from, I think this was a good compromise if people are going to be making a lot of bad faith interpretations of you and your work :/ 

Thank you for your explanation though, hope to see more from you whenever the inspiration strikes you <3