Oh, gosh!! This was such a delight! And by delight, I mean I was basically half on the edge of my chair the whole time so sure I was going to make some kind of horrible wrong decision, but I digress LOL
I had a ton of fun playing this! Perhaps because I have more experience in the visual novel side of things than the IF side of things, I was fascinated at just HOW many different choices there were at all times and how many different things you could do—this was quite new for me! So I really enjoyed getting to hunt and peck around and see all the different things I could do and the people I could interact with. There was a very real sense of... I don't know... impeding doom??? About the whole thing. Like, even from the very beginning in the forest worrying that every decision I made was going to end up in my untimely death, to then when I was exploring the village and having strange interactions with people and the time kept getting later and later and the sun starting to set. It was wonderfully immersive and almost surreal, and it kept me on edge the whole time I was playing.
I'm the type of person who when I play a game is absolutely incapable of being mean or rude to people, so I felt like I was making mostly neutral or positive attempts at talking and interacting with the various people (though now I'm also curious how it would have turned out had I not been so kind LOL). I really enjoyed the night at the inn with Mila. It felt incredibly homey to me—a little respite in the midst of all the strange unnerving-ness happening outside. I also loved having the chance to make choices in such a way as to describe my own past and self—for instance, how people perceive me and who I was traveling with, etc.
The drawings throughout were so well done and absolutely lovely. Coupled with the haunting music always there in the background, they really helped pull you even more into the story and adding to the eerie tone of the experience. And absolutely beautiful and descriptive writing! Everything just fit together so well to create a haunting experience that grew more and more nerve-rattling as it went on. I'm really intrigued at what will happen next after that ending GOD!!! akdjfalsdkf
Really well done and I'll be looking forward to more!! 💕