Oh my gosh, that was wild LOL I loved it???? Admittedly, the word "wild" doesn't seem to mesh with the initial appearance of this game as everything about it looks and feels and sound so sweet and calm -- UNTIL THINGS SHIFT? The reveal in the middle was so well done! I wasn't expecting that at all!
The moment I started this up, I felt quite at peace. The music is GORGEOUS. It somehow gave me a sense of the music of Thomas Newman's movie scores. Just very, mmm, peaceful yet sad, with repeating piano undertones that keep everything grounded. That coupled with the BG of the forest. It all put me somewhat at ease. Then Rosy showed up, and she was so adorable! Despite my underlying suspicions about her, I couldn't have guessed where it was ultimately leading (though perhaps I should have put two and two together more with the title of the game LOL). So it made for a really fun reveal when the camera finally panned down -- the pan effect paired with the music stopping and then the horror in the MC's voice, it was just really excellently done and definitely made me sit back a bit with my mouth open before continuing.
Then when it continued from there and Rosy was describing all these quite unnerving and ghastly things about decomposition and "filling" me with that even frank and calm tone, it was the weirdest juxtaposition I've ever experienced LOL It was so wonderfully surreal and mind-bending. The first ending I got was the peacefully fading away one, which I found to ultimately be as peaceful to me as to the MC -- there really was something quite... poignant and calming about just... becoming nothing... fading into the world around us... merging with nature. And I think you captured that feeling so excellently considering how willingly I accepted my fate LOL I played it again and got the ending where Rosy ultimately leaves and it just left me feeling empty inside GOD.
The art of Rosy is so well done! A lovely combination of cute mixed with the grotesque horror of the larger art upon her full reveal. And the VA was sooooo well done!! Both for Rosy, with her calm straightforwardness and for the MC, who had some really wonderfully emotional lines in there. Just overall absolutely fantastic and quite the strange and surreal experience. Oh, and loved how the title screen changes afterwards!! Oh, to be a skull full of mushrooms just lying in the forest......