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What a lovely, lovely game. Beautiful music, beautiful voice acting, beautiful art—it was all so good! Coming from someone who has complicated-tending-towards-negative feelings towards romantic soulmates as a trope, I fell completely in love with intertwine, and of course, with Van. It's not a new take, but I vastly prefer soulmate stories where the people tangled together in fate's web ultimately have to choose to be together despite whatever plans destiny has for them, so I was really pleased by the game's main mechanic. The red thread might've led us all to Van, but in the end it was our choice to stay and build a life together with him. (Except in that one ending, and the other lifetimes where Van says we rejected him, but hey, it's the thought that counts, right?)

Also, so sick and twisted of you to tie Van's hair back and not give us a CG of what it looks like down. I believe in Van's Rapunzel arc, I really do.

Also also, I think you did a pretty good job at keeping things gender neutral! It always feels a bit 😧😧 when games with a gender selectable MC mention things that make it clear that a feminine MC is canon, so the attention to detail here was really nice.

Also also also, I'm completely obsessed with the fact that in the final lifetime we see, Van initially shows up as Van before his title reverts to Handsome Stranger. Was that intentional?

Now it's for me to take a nap thinking about Van in preparation for replaying intertwine tomorrow. I'll be sticking around for your other games, so good luck on your game dev undertakings!

oh gosh thank you so much for the glowing review!! i totally get the "tending-towards-negative" feelings towards soulmates. it can feel very hit or miss depending on how it's done (which could probably be said about most tropes anyways LOL). i'm so glad you liked our take on it though. ironically enough, the third life (aka rejection life) was placed there so you could feel like you could choose to not be with van (and still live a fulfilling life) should you desire! many players have said rejecting him made them sad though LOL

happy to hear about the gender neutral aspect as well! i try to put in a good amount of effort to make sure it comes off that way, and i'm happy that piece was appreciated ^^ hope your replay was still filled with lots of love, and thank you so much for the support both on intertwine and future games! <33333