Jesus how many frickin endings are are there??? Like my third playthrough and there's always something different at the end! An ending where I'm cruel and he dunks me for it, and ending where I ''can't decide how I feel about him'' Do the ol' switcharoo, AND ANOTHER ONE WHERE I JUST ADORE HIM AND THERE'S YET AGAIN DIFFERENT DIALOGUE!! At some points it even feels like he's talking directly to me by how accurate some remarks are. "You probably don't even MEAN that. You just want to see what I'll say." Which is true, SEE MY PROBLEM?
Anyway, I think I seriously underestimated the effort that went into making a seemingly actually oh god is he really sentient VN. (seriously though, ik he follows a script but it's honestly very convincing) I mean, I was amazed by my first playthrough, mainly because Ashton is so charmingly adorable in the early game and it sorta sunk it's poison hooks into my heart, but also because it actually took me by surprise a couple times and genuinely frightened me, especially when John gets voided. (One of my favourite screenshots of the game) I can't wait for the Reboot to come out, this world/story/idk how to put it, whatever lore was revealed in the demo- has really got me stuck in an infinite cycle of seeing what else Ashton has to offer. Really great and amazing and very uh fun to play!
Also a suggestion I guess? It would be cool and would add another layer of 4th wall shattering if at some point the light on our camera IRL turned on to show that he's watching, or the game just sends a message asking for access to your camera? A couple times during playthrough I was nervously glancing at the one I have mounted on my monitor and I think that if one of those times, the light was actually on, I would have literally jumped out of my chair in horror! I have no idea what you're going to do with the reboot, and I'm so inexperienced in coding that I don't know how much effort this would take, but I honestly think it would be a really fun idea.
One thing that's got me curious, though, was something Ash said a couple lines of dialogue before the game ends. It's mostly blocked out by blank squares but I get the feeling that with his lip-licking and "for days on end" part of that line, it was kind of.... Well.... You know what I mean... Don't have to answer but I'm really curious what he was trying to say.