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I enjoyed this game quite a bit!

The art is charming, the characters are surprisingly deep for such a short game, and the music is very well composed; it did a perfect job of delivering an atmosphere befitting of such an uneasy, mysterious carnival. I look forward to playing it again when the voiced update releases. There was quite a lot of creative use of sprite animations as well—for example, bobbing an entire sprite up and down to simulate nodding—which I thought was quite clever. Lots of fun visuals with the menus and menu transitions as well.

It's hard to pick a favorite LI, they're all charming in their own way. Micah is a delight (and canonically a trans man like myself which means the world to me) I felt some accomplishment making Lark smile (even if it was going to happen by virtue of playing his route anyway) and Aurel is genuinely sweet. However I think I enjoyed Lark's route the best, which surprised me—based on the character designs, (which are all fantastic, by the way) I had expected Micah or Aurel to be more my type. (and granted, Aurel is also my type, and comes at a close second) Can't judge a book by it's cover, as they say.

I will say, I almost passed up this game because of the lack of ability to change the player character's pronouns—because while neutral pronouns are certainly better than being forced into a set of gendered pronouns that aren't accurate for me (as is the case with a large majority of VNs) as a trans person who does not use neutral pronouns, it still often feels like misgendering to be referred to with they/them, and I felt that a bit with this game.  I do still wish I could change the pronouns, however I'm glad I decided to play it despite my reservation, since it turned out to be a fun time!

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I'm glad you enjoyed it!  It's especially nice to hear about Aurels character design! I wanted to go with a design for him that painted him as the antagonist initially to add to some of the story angst later when you get to his route.

We did initially think about letting players choose their pronouns and having canon sexualities for the LIs, but between the game jam time constraints and the fact that we were worried people would get feel bad being soft locked out of routes, we decided against it in the end! But we will definitely keep this feedback in mind, since we are planning for a mini update in the future with some additional content!