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Im not saying this even makes it a bad game, but the tonal shift is so sudden and imense it's like reading a my little pony novel and suddenly slender Man is hunting them through the forests. It could still be a good story, but you should know what you're getting into at the beginning. "Acting lessons" was another vn I would have noped out of if I'd have known the themes and direction it would end up going with.

Maybe I missed a warning somewhere, but it really ruined my personal enjoyment at least, I'm glad it didn't yours ☺️

Started strong, exquisite writing, beautiful art, great characters, light and friendly just what I want from VN's. Ended in a train wreck. what makes it so much worse is how amazing the writing was right up to that point.

spoilers:

At the pool party, a character that wasn't nearly as "screw loose" in my play through as the narrator makes it seem does something unforgivable. Not only do we not have the power to correct it, but she was evil mastermind enough to put in safeguards. After that I started skipping ahead looking for any resolution, where I could finally reverse the awful and unknown things she did and protect others from her evil. 

Spoiler: just stop, it doesn't happen. The narrator/ creator admits that this turn was much darker than they intended and pissed people off, but the game still doesn't tie up the story thread at all. As far as I can tell, your friends remain with unresolved and unknown commands, and the villain remains at large.

It literally killed any interest in the rest of the story for me. I'd say you'd have to rewrite a bunch to get it back on track to the light and fun romp it was before, but it would be 3+ chapters of editing just to fix it, and I doubt that will happen.

At least put a warning in the announcers first intro about "btw this game takes a seriously dark turn around the pool party, stop at that point if you aren't into that, we won't be resolving that story thread"