everyone...i love this game so much. i just had a special gummy so let's all just buckle up before i feel too weird about this. spoiler free!!! :)
design/concept
this game had me missing my active discord days. like, everyone's still there, we all still are in the same servers, but we all just...got busy. had to deal with life. moved. lost someone and had to take a step back. etc etc. i'm biased i KNOW but this game hits my soul in such an interesting way that i don't really know how to fully describe yet. babes i'm going to be thinking about this one for years.
i can tell a lot of work was put into this from people who spend time in that space. that weird little discord space on the internet that makes you check your phone during work or class and start a hundred dumb inside jokes. everyone knows a xyx. everyone's met a nightowl or an onion, but they're not caricatures, they're done lovingly and with intent.
music/sound
this is probably the third game i've kept all the sound and voices on for. i really, really, REALLY love the music, especially Logging Off, Chilltalk, Please Don't Go, and Let's Goooo. at first i was just going to write how much i like having literally any track on in the bg for 12 hours, but when i went to find my favs, i was super impressed at how they all connect in some way, whether it's instrument, motif, progression, etc. a lot of them have different main percussion that make it easier to remember what you're listening to.
each track is distinct and conveys a different emotion, but never sounds out of place. even the stuff that comes out of left field works well (maybe a didgeridoo in brb restart?? which might be a nod to xyx????? if so ily)
plot (spoiler-free)
listen don't be a little goblin like me and go straight for xyx. or maybe do, whatever. but go do quest and nightowl after that and only THEN nakedtoaster. it would have been so easy to just have the same story for each route but we got actual plot here, folks. we got INTRIGUE! we got CONFLICT! we got CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! slurp it up mama MIA pizzaria hooWEE!!!!!
10/10 welcome to post bloonini life, traveler