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I really, really enjoyed this game. The setting feels like it could very well have developed from our current world and seems to parallel how the internet has changed over the past 20 years. This was really well thought out.

I keep trying to think what  Mahou Shojou Darkness might be a reference to. Maybe a slight reference to Madoka Magica, minus the Goth girl. It also made me think of an '80s anime I just learned about called Minky Momo, which had a season or so as a very popular cute magical girl anime making a fortune off merchandise. Then, for no apparent reason, their toy company's sponsor suddenly cut them off. This made the animator so angry, they killed off Minky Momo in what appears to be Truck-kun's first gig, when she is hit by a very symbolic truck full of toys. She reincarnated as a baby and grew up to become a magical girl again, but it kept being emphasized that original Minky Momo was dead (●´⌓`●). No idea if Drew's favorite anime was at all inspired by this or just a really weird coincidence?

I did notice an error with the load menu in that when I loaded my save, it showed (the title background?) instead of the current game's background and it was only corrected when I pulled up the save menu, then went back to the screen. Then I tried to save again later and it froze on the save screen.

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Thank you!  I'm very happy you enjoyed it!

Yes, Madoka was definitely a partial inspiration of the character and show!  There was also other anime that had similar "kill-them-all" endings that I based the character off of, many which ended with the Creator being frustrated by either the studio or the way their work was being portrayed.  

I actually haven't heard of Minky Momo, but I'll definitely give it a look now! :)

Would you have any more details about this error?  What platform did this happen on?  

What place in the story was your save?  Did you load the game from a different part of the story?  Or did you load the game from the main title screen?   Any details can help me reproduce it and find a solution!  

Thank you again!

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Sure. I am on a PC using Chrome. I loaded from the main menu and the save point was on the rooftop in Chapter 4, I believe. Hayden had just finished talking to his sister. The character sprites were present but the background was the credits. Once I opened and closed the in game save menu (I don't think I even reloaded from it) it pulled up the correct background.

By the way, wanna say that I really like the art style you developed. It has a slight "anime look," but at the same time it also has a unique cyberpunk style that is quite distinctive. I like generic anime art, but when people experiment like this, it reminds me how much I like it when people do something different too.

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Sorry you had that issue!  I wasn't able to reproduce this just yet, but I'll keep looking into it to see if it is a continued issue with the save system.  Thank you for letting me know!

Also, thank you very much, I actually did start out having the game's style be a bit more "anime-like", but pivoted in this other direction around midpoint of pre-production, I'm happy you like it :D