This is an incredibly touching story. I even cried while playing it too. The reason why is because the game hits so close to home. This is exactly my relationship with my best friend. They’re suicidal, have been left by lots of their friends in the past, and have hurt others before. Even with me, they aren’t perfect. They’ve messed up too. But the player charachter here perfectly represents me in ending 4. I’m patient with them, always listen, and be as gentle and caring as possible. Because I know that deep down, they’re a good person. And I love writing stories with them and spending time with them. I’ve seen them improve and get better. They said they feel a lot less suicidal with me, and that they probably wouldn’t be alive still if they haven’t met me. They even confessed that they want to marry me one day, and I’d like to marry them too. We’re both quite young, still very young adults, so that won’t happen for a while. But I think I wanna spend the rest of my life making stories with them and making them feel loved and wanted, because they made me feel deep love too. Things are getting better now. They’ve started going to therapy, and things still aren’t always easier, but I trust that things will get better. Everything will be okay in the end.
Needless to say, I’m very grateful you made this, because it resembles my story with my own partner so much. The music fits perfectly with the emotional scenes, and the art is really touching and shows emotion really well with the charachters. I could tell a ton of effort and love was put into this, and I’m proud of you for doing all that. Not many people even get to this point at all, and you deserve praise for pulling through and leaving your mark on the world.
As for criticisms, I only have a one. That being that some of the options are bugged. For example, saying you wanna stay in the relationship and then pressing “nod” will reset the cutscene back instead of progressing. You already know this, but waiting at the door first before opting to go in also stops the game in place. There is also one more instance of this. It’s after you decide to not run and are talking about your feelings with one another. I don’t quite remember, but I believe in either the 2nd or 3rd option, if you press on the “that won’t fix this” option, the game will also freeze and not proceed. Which is a shame since I wanted to explore all of the possible outcomes to see as much of the writing as possible! I think fixing these would be help us see more of your writing, which I really like! It’s very touching.
Thank you for making this story, and for putting all your time and effort into it. I really hope you’re doing better now, and I wish you the best of luck. You remind me of my best friend. You don’t wanna hurt people deep down, and I can tell you’re a good person with a good soul. Life will get better, don’t give up okay? I’m proud of you!