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Thanks for the feedback! When I came up with the idea, I wanted to avoid interpreting the theme too literally and explore a different way of expressing it. The puppet’s five strings represent its life. Each time a string breaks, its remaining life counts down from five toward zero, and when all the strings are gone, the puppet dies. This countdown also functions as the game’s health system. That said, I understand that I could have communicated this connection more clearly in the game.