ohhh, i really liked this. the sprites were really cool -- animated no less, whew! that really made them feel alive. loved the conversations between the two. i do feel they were realistic. i talk like that with my bestie too. LOL
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the end did catch me a bit off guard but not necessarily in a bad way. the slice-of-life nature, i think, was instrumental to the twist... sometimes that's just how it goes. maybe it'd hit even harder on replay, too.
(relatedly, i really enjoyed the slice-of-life, regardless of the twist LMAO. it was cute! their conversations were fun to follow!)
i guess if anything, my only real criticisms are:
1) i wish there was more that hinted at eli's fate, and
2) i really was not a fan of the wait between lines. it disrupted the flow a bit too much, and i'd always click before the dialogue was over, which made it skip to the next sentence, then i'd have to rollback to see the rest of the sentence, etc... i feel it'd be more beneficial to make it a click-to-continue rather than a wait, for the sake of pacing.
ANYWAY! really enjoyed this. i want to learn more about lila and eli :^)