Oh, gosh.... this was beyond gorgeous. I'm left sitting here after playing it just... in my chair... thinking about it... I got a lot of feelings from this??? Though I'm having a hard time putting them into words.
Can I just say first off that art is absolutely GORGEOUS? The background?? All the washes of colors, the details, the vibrant surreal landscape?? I felt like every time it showed me a different part of it, I was noticing new things, like how the colors would swirl around in such a way or the details of the tiny grasses and flowers or the texture of the purplish smoke. I wanted to just stare at it forever! And perhaps get lost in it. That would be quite nice I think LOL New headspace where I can just sit by this river and get lost in the colors.
Next, the writing is fantastic. It's like a lilting song, a beautiful poem, like a dance in my head as I read it. From the colorful word choices to the elegant rhythm of the sentences -- and also all the different metaphors going on! The way you would describe the landscape. Comparing the different aspects of it to various feelings and memories and experiences. I would sometimes just sit and reread a sentence again a few times because it was so beautiful. I read the descriptions on your game page after I played the game and saw all the different connections you were trying to make about love and experiences and memories and it made me connect with it even more afterwards, so I played it again with all those in mind. I just thought it was really well done -- and I think that even if people don't notice all those connections themselves or resonate with all of them, they'll surely still feel something resonating in their hearts that they can connect with in the words and the music and the art.
GOD. Just. This was just such a beautiful experience. Thank you so much for making this!! It's going to sit with me a while lol.