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I really enjoyed this.

I can definitely feel the Undertale influence here as well as Pokemon Gen 1 for the visuals.

The battle plays out like a little puzzle and it made me laugh a couple of times. Humor can be very subjective but this is just the right amount of silly to make LOTS of people laugh I feel.

Story based games face the challenge of integrating gameplay early enough and it's good you have the player do something pretty much right out of the gate since the interactivity is what makes you invested in the story.

Here's a couple of things that could be improved on:

When choosing the boy or the girl let a default cursor show up on the screen, with one of them already selected. It only appears once you press left or right and I honestly thought my game game froze for a couple of seconds.
 

I think I know what you're going for with the .txt files included in the game, but honestly? Your storytelling is strong enough that you can do without them. Additionally, account for hostile users. Some players simply won't open those files or read instructions.

Is the window size a design choice? I usually get grumpy when I can't resize the window, but I can see stuff popping up outside of it during the gameplay so I'm looking forward to seeing what else you got cooking here.

In conclusion: please keep working on this! I'll definitely play more when you release a new version.

Thanks! Super glad you enjoyed!

I was trying to make the game kind of silly, so it makes me happy that you actually laughed. I really hope people can make gameplay videos of this someday, so I can see them react to the experience.

So you actually saw the .txt files! While not very urgent to read, they were a last-minute decision, to add some extra character to the game. I actually forgot about them myself for a minute, so thanks for checking them out :)

I hope the window size wasn't an issue! I initially was trying to do some kind of gameboy-like size, but I sort of ditched that idea and never really thought about resizing it. Also, what do you mean by stuff popping up outside it?

Thanks again, and good luck to Cruelty is the Point!