ive been wanting to play the game ever since i saw it on the yaoi game jam submission, and i was glad i finally got the time to play it.. AND THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY NUTS, ITS CRAZY
(spoilers for the game!!!)
Just like the other comment, literally nothing could have prepared me for that I was going into. I've read the trigger warnings, but i wanted to experience the thing blind, so i just playing the game right away..but obv i overestimated myself because throughout the game i was SCARED LOL and just as I thought it couldn't get worse, it kept going worse like a train wreck i couldn't stop 😭
First of all i rlly liked how you represent the different emotions/feelings into different colors, and during the progression of the game we get to know what they are, like hope/depression... and the way you showed them through different voices like they were all speakers (like inside out) was rlly well executed! it was absolutely scary to see lewis destroying them one by one as he got progressively worse😭 during the game i kept secretly wishing for a happy ending with the emotions being alive again, but nope..omg... every scene that progressed, with lewis objectively getting skinnier and unhealthier and bruised, it gave a sense of dread i can't even explain
and a side note, talking about happy endings, for the 2 choices we could decide at the party (following joshua / leave the party), initially i followed joshua, but we all know what followed after. so i thought maybe going outside will be better, and when i saw the star scenery i had some bit of hope, but NOOOPE, the scenes after that is even worse than what i had with joshua omg i couldn't stop screaming throughout the game..holy..😭
you rlly nailed the psych horror genre, especially the trope of the main character being pushed and pushed until they're at their absolute limit, it's like watching a tragedy. initially lewis was relatable - a kid in college, a try hard to fit in, etc - but as he became worse at one point i think he stops being relatable, i think it was when he stopped taking his meds and started to develop his unhealthy obsession for gabriel. overall this was NUTS and im fairly new to the VN space but i think this was one of the most disturbing things ive read, and u rlly managed to make it SCARY... WOW. it was such a ride! thanks for making this!!