I am a bit uneasy at how much A.I is used in this demo. Like the faces, the random idle animation, the whole «breaking news» is so clearly A.I like the game, wasn’t even trying to hide it anymore.
Please, take this as genuine advice at this point. What you did with A.I that is ... technically kind of impressive, but also clearly clumsy (inconsistent voices, facial animations, slight graphic style incoherences from one frame to the other) could be achieved with ... much less ambition and a smaller budget while still being good.
I get that you’re trying to hype us and foreshadow the big event, but if the scenario is good, there is no need to put all of your horses in this one single ... very long and awkward A.I animation. It is a bit weird when my adult game suddenly tries to act as a Marvel Movie without the means to be a M.Movie.
Give me a text, give me a comics-style frame-by-frame where the face of the TV anchor changes every once in a while during his dialogue. Heck, give him a PowerPoint to talk about the Virus! It’s a visual novel after all.
I would usually refrain from commenting, but you are also making a game that is trying to be weirdly inclusive of people like me: Non-Binary, Trans, etc. It seems we could also date every other gender. I would have loved to give this game a chance cause heck, it’s rare.
But it feels predatory at this point. I really don’t like the idea that for all of your inclusivity, you’d use A.I to the point where I don’t know anymore what is genuine and what's not in this game.
Regardless, I wish you the best in your endeavour.