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A very interesting piece here! Very incredible for a first public piece too, well done for creating and sharing it! I played in response to a call for feedback, so now I must deliver... muhaha...

I really liked the writing style, it's very unique but still very readable and stays so until the end, it helps that the font happens to be a similar one to the one on my terminal I think. 

The usage of text effects and colours throughout was handled decently well and I felt it complemented the writing nicely, though this might just be a personal thing but I dislike when text auto-progresses, as someone who reads on high cps speeds it makes it very easy to miss what was being said, though that might just be personal preference.

I really enjoyed the writing and how viscerally some things were describe, a very powerful pen indeed! It conveys feeling in a very interesting and direct way, and I really enjoyed it! I found the letter flicking to flashbacks to be a particularly standout scene,  very beautifully written and well handled, a very standout moment in an already standout piece (though I found the water transition to be a bit inconvenient in its frequency) And I generally enjoyed the pacing of the story up until it's conclusion! I found the ending to be a little abrupt, perhaps a few more lines to give the reader some time to dwell would be nice, but beyond that I found the story to be communicated and paced very effectively.

A small technical issue I ran into was that sometimes while text was running along it would jolt up a little in the nvl box? I can't tell if this is intentional or a quirk of some of the text effects, but I felt it was worth mentioning. This got more prevelant towards the end.

Great job! Thank you for sharing! Hope to see you create more in the future!

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Thank you! We had a lot of fun with this one.

I'm so glad the writing style came through well! We were worried how our brain likes to sort words wouldn't be very readable, so I'm so glad it came through so well. The font we used was Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono if you were curious.

We had so much fun with the colors and text effects. When you say auto-progress, do you mean when it clears text off the screen without waiting for a click (such as with the Need. scene), when it auto-progresses past commas and colons and such, or both? Or something else? Regardless, we may add a toggle in this one for anyone who needs or wants it in a future version, and keep that in mind for future VNs.

I'm delighted it conveyed feeling so well, and that it could be so visceral! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. We were worried a bit at the pacing, and we're so happy it ended up working so well! We loved writing and organizing the letter, though we ended up rushing in the ripple transitions a bit when we submitted it, especially with the letter, and didn't touch up on that. We might actually mess around some before putting it down. We did mean to end it abruptly, to try to be kind of narratively jarring, but it seems that didn't land as well as we'd hoped. We appreciate you letting us know.

I think I know what you're talking about with the jolting. It might be some of the text effects, we'll look into it, thank you for mentioning it!

We think we really do plan to make another, and that can take a lot for our system. Thank you for all the feedback, we got a lot from your comment! We feel very motivated to work on our next project!!

By auto-progress yes, I mean like with the need scene!

Happy to have provided feedback!! I'm glad yoj feel motivated for your next project :>