OMG I have so much to say about this LOL This was definitely a ride holy cow! I love how at the beginning it was almost kinda... slice-of-lifey. Sure, there was a bit of mystery and intrigue because of the disappearences, but for the most part, we were able to just kind of live with Vidal for a while and get to know him and the other chars, which was really great, as it made the ending hit that much harder.
(Apologies slightly if my thoughts are all over the place afkjsdlafds)
The designs of all the chars—they are absolutely lovely. Really enjoyed seeing them in both their "normal" and lamenter forms and seeing both the similarities and differences between the two. And their relics were so much fun! Loved the different designs for them and especially how they're always just kinda there bouncing around in the background. It gives a lot of movement to the scenes! Sprites in general were just gorgeous, from the soft coloring and highlights to the rainbow gradients... GUH.
If I had to choose a fav from all of them it would have to be Michi—there was something so adorable about him and he was just so sweet and plucky. Then probably Abby. His relationship with Vidal was so beautifully done! I liked how it was subtle but definitely very much THERE and so it just felt very natural, especially given how long they've been friends for. They just played off of each other so well! And the clocktower scene was so sweet—that CG HHHHHH. ABSOLUTE LOVE.
The animations were a lot of fun and kept things really engaging throughout! I especially loved whenever Vidal had his wings out and would do the little floating-up-and-down bit. Writing was lovely. The worldbuilding! I especially loved all the little bits you added in about some of the other lamenters. It made the story feel really big and like this was just a little snapshot of the whole lamenter world with these four. Beautiful backgrounds! Love how soft and warm they were. The sprites looked gorgeous on top of them and everything blended really nicely together.
Fav CG has to be that summer one in the middle with them all at the beach. I paused a moment just to look at it for a while because it was so cute!
AND THEN GUH. As soon as the tension and horror bits started to creep in... dang. It was so well done! The building tension along with those music choices really made the hair on the back of my neck start to stand up, especially when Vidal was being stalked. AND THEN THE FREAKING MIST CREATURES OMG THEY ARE LITERALLY SO CREEPY. Especially Irise's one wtf??? With the neck??? I'm definitely going to have nightmares from these I think HAHAHA. Abby's transformation sequence was especially well done and creeped me out so much. Flashback to all the creepy monster transformations in anime that I've watched that I've never been able to completely erase from my mind LOL
Overall just super well done and a great story that really ramped up at the end and left me wanting more. Like I wanna know what's happening now?? What's going to happen to them? What even really ARE they? I have so many questions.
Highly recommended!!
(Small note—I needed to create a "base" folder for the main font in order to start up the game, I'm not sure why? It popped up an error saying the font wasn't there. I got it to work though and after that no errors at all!!)