Sob this little demo was so lovely already!! The idea behind the story already resonates so much with me, and then actually seeing it in action and the chars and their thoughts and fears and misgivings... GUHHHH. My heart felt so seen and I could relate to all of them so so much 😭💕
Absolutely in love with Sher, I felt like so many of her thoughts could have been my exact own?? Not only the expectations of how to look and what you're supposed to "want" in life, but also just that guttural fear when it comes to anything involving the bedroom. This recurring theme of "expectations" is something I also find myself coming back to again and again and again in my own works, especially when it comes to sexuality. And so I instantly clung to Sher and her story. Also the fact that she would give up a part of her own life/future in order to give her sister more freedom. There was just so much about her that I loved so much!!
Also just loved how we get to see this kind of nervous tension between Sher and Shariar because we as the players can see that neither of them actually want this. That they're both scared. That they're both plagued with these expectations they feel they need to fulfill. And also that they both assume that the other has these expectations of them, as well. And it just makes me GUHHHH FLDKHGDJDFAD my heart feels for both of them so much. As if communication wasn't already tough enough when both people do understand each other, but now with neither of them fully understanding themselves and their own feelings and weighed down by all these expectations to boot. I really look forward to seeing how it continues and if they will both ever find that actually their thoughts and feelings are similar and that they don't need to give in to everything that's pressuring them sob.
Just really lovely and sweet. The art and GUI and everything is positively lovely, too!! I really loved the design of the characters and how you designed everything with the BGs almost feeling like paintings or pages from a storybook atop the patterns. It's a really unique way to design the interface and I feel like it works so wonderfully for this story that's all based around stories! And the GUI is so detailed and ornate, it's so beautiful!! 💕
All in all just a really fantastic start to a beautiful story and I'm really excited to see how the story progresses. I just want both of them to be so so happy sobbbbb 😭💕