Firstly, I have to say thank you so much for taking the time to play through the game and then come and write up such a thoughtful comment/review :3 It really means a lot that you chose to check this out and finish it because, of all my projects, this one is the least downloaded. I know it’s pretty bleak, so maybe that puts people off, haha, but it doesn’t even have many views either, which means people are completely passing it up without even taking a look at the page and I don’t really know why because I feel like it’s probably one of my better games >.< Better than some of my others that have received far more interest anyway, haha.
Your comment might mean the difference between someone closing the page or downloading it to play themselves though, so I really appreciate that you wrote what you did!
As a person with extremely low levels of self-confidence, it can often be difficult to know whether or not I’ve managed to achieve what I hoped to when I write and create these games, and I can’t lie, the general lack of interest and interaction with this project and its alternative otome version did leave me wondering if I’d made an awful job of it or something, haha. While I’m personally pleased with how it turned out, it’s nice to get some form of outside validation to help combat the self-doubt I often find myself swamped by.
I’m really glad that you enjoyed it overall, and that the multiple playthrough mechanic paid off in a satisfying way :3 It was something I’d wanted to include in a project for a long time, but never really had the opportunity to with a lot of my stuff being made under strict deadlines for game jams. Since this was also for a jam (albeit a longer 2-month one), I did worry it wouldn’t be possible to pull it off effectively in the time I had. I was concerned it might be more tedious than rewarding, so it’s fantastic to hear that you felt it built on the first playthrough having that different POV to experience.
I’m also relieved to hear that you felt Perry’s POV made her somewhat more sympathetic because that was my hope when I started writing it. By the end though, I wasn’t sure if perhaps I’d accidentally made her come across as more monstrous >.< So it means a lot to know that you felt it came across as her truly caring for Rue because I would never want any of my characters, especially my yanderes, to be portrayed as absolute villains or irredeemable monsters. One of the big reasons I got into game dev in the first place was to try my best to create different kinds of yandere characters that could be seen as more human than they’re often portrayed. Don’t get me wrong, I love me a good psycho character, but more than that, I always find myself wanting to know why they are the way they are, and that’s something that often went unanswered in the games I was playing and stories I was reading.
Thank YOU for your time and your wonderful words. They mean the world to me :3