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Quite late to reading but I'm glad I did, what a story :-].

I'm not Korean but it still felt familiar to me how you wrote these characters (and also reading the behind the scenes for them) I also enjoy the tackling of religion/su-jin's religious upbringing/clash with her father (and possibly the rest of her family).

It does feel like how su-jin feels the world, it goes by in a flash and you're just waiting for that special moment to indulge, but you know in some way that this isn't your path, not the path that makes you respectable and well seen by others.

Also, a personal note from me. But as a Chinese diaspora in south east Asia, I found it very shocking but... Humanizing? To see a casual mention of the consumption of dog meat in the story. Throughout my life online and offline, just in general east Asians (and other Asians of different kinds) are labeled as inhumane monsters who'd torture and eat anything that moves. It's the one stereotype that just creeps up in the back of my mind even though I live in a place where the majority demographic is Chinese. But seeing it just handled so casually and neutrally here kinda puts me at ease, cause any other time it's mentioned, you'll have to flip a coin on whether how it's talked about is extremely racist.

But no need to dwell on that, love your colors and your character designs!! Thank you for making this story. Su-jin is the most normal girl ever :heart:

TY TY!!! i just saw this but this has me brimming from ear to ear. Thank you so much for your kind words... They're very flattering.

About the comment EM makes towards the planes, it's actually inspired off a tiny convo I had with my friends that inspired this whole idea haha. So cutes.

I'm really happy to know/hear that my writing off fetishes I know people enjoy/see a lot is good especially in an environment where it's treated just weirdly or "otherworldly".

Thank you once again for your kind comment towards my art and game!! :-D thank you for sharing your comment as well

I'm super late to reading/checking this out but wow, that was heavy.

You're prose is wonderful and dense, great atmosphere and music. It was truely horrific what was happening and how much I could see myself in it. This is an extremely painful work but very fufilling to read.

Your game is super cool and I like it :-]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I'm glad you enjoyed and were able to relate to my work!!! From the start references to ytp/meme/very online stuff was always planned cause I think genuinely they are forms of mixed media, cutting up and taping shit together to form new things... and also as a form of escapism from the real world where you can kinda disconnect from your "real" self and have some sense of normalcy/control... But even that's not working anymore for poor EM...

Also haha since you're the second person who said stuff about an in-game image gallery I might look into that for my next games!

Once again thank you so much for the thoughtful and wonderful comment ❤️ it was really nice go wake up to.

Really stylish and intriguing! I'd love to see more of this when it fully releases!

Deeply and painfully relatable, also as a (coincidentally) trans and Asian person.

Hurts in a personal way </3 thank you for making this.

hello! I'm beginning my playthrough of your game and the preference menu is bugged(?)

Just letting you know!!!

Extremely harsh and beautiful story about the price of "pulling yourself up the boot straps" and "the american dream" myths and narratives.

An effectively heartwrenching series of events, I found myself very invested in what was happening, gorgeous traditional collages for the background. Great job in the writing!!!

Thank you so much!!! Your words and feedback are insightful to me, I'm glad I was able to convey the bleakness and misery of EM's life.

Also, for the text, I actually also have it on a slower text speed! I thought I already tampered with the cps speed on it but I might make a patch/note about it!! I'm sorry about that 🙇

Once again thank you so much for playing!! :-D

The entire time I was thinking "it's so over" and "we're so fucking back".

Riveting and suspenful story!!! Really had me on the edge of my seat to see what happened, the moment I thought it would end in a certain direction and instead uturned into something else had me jaw dropped. Beautiful use of collages and art work.

poor Hermann...

Beautiful and poignant, good music and powerful visuals

SOUTHEAST ASIAAAAAAA

Lovely and sweet story :-], bitterweet near the end as well. Execellent story and characters.

Nice & cute short love story between two birds, loved the presentation and stop motion of the birds! Very very cute

Thank you so much for playing! As for the transformation part I think the theme of physical change/transformation aligned well with those two subjects to thematically make sense yet be so contrasting :-].

Hit very close to home scarily, it felt very indulgent to read cause so many topics covered/shown in the game felt like part of my own life. The writing reminds me a lot of Stephen Graham Jone's work (although I'm still a beginner in reading his books).

Loved it, very inspirational

thank you for your kind words! I was actually very unsure with myself is this story/what I ended up writing could count as "toxic" but I hope I swinged hard enough for some people... Words I'll have to save for my post mortem. Once again tysm for playing!!

Very tense and had me on the edge of my seat, brings me back to memories of swimming lessons I attended/going to the pool. Elegant ui and visuals as well, minor detail but I liked recognizing when Yuun used the term nai nai :-]

Execellent work, love the commentary and unique set up/flow of the story, very harrowing.

Also, it was quite surprising but nice to read that leslie was chinese malaysian, I'm singaporean but that felt extra "woah cool". Great read.

THANK YOU!!! I'm glad you picked up the themes of isolation from the story... It was indeed intended to be very smothering. I have thought of hypotheticals where Kristal manages to move on... Imagine the rhythm heaven fever remix 9 song basically.

Also tysm about the art!!! I'm honored cause honestly from my POV I was worried it was too "sloppy" but I'm glad people like it stylistically :-].

Also sorry for the late reply!! Already commented lol but it works well!! Thanks for taking notice/fixing :-D

I finally got to this game and wow, it did not disappoint!!! I mostly heard of this game by word of mouth from a mutual who took notice that I was participating in the jam as well and I heard very exciting things.

The prose and writing is beautiful, I really loved Judy and Willow's dynamic, the set up in the beginning to lead to that devastating climax/the rest of the story. I loved how mutually toxic they were, the arguements and resentment alongside the tenderness/memories of the good times they genuinely had. It's not hard to see why either of them stayed with eachother for so long especially when they were a picture perfect "meet cute" situation. Despite the somewhat high stakes, everything else played rather "matter of factly", like no crazy running away or aftermaths apart from the ending, life continues despite what had just happened and has every possibility to just get so much worse.

The ui and art is also very well done, I love Judy and Willow's design, especially the CG of Willow at the restuarant, genuinely beautiful. Well done!! My personal contender for TYVNJ 2 winner

Hello, I heard of your game through word of mouth from a mutual and I'm excited to play! But also, the shellscript/.sh file is not executing correctly for me!! Luckily, the web browser version is available/I could use wine to play the exe but I'd like for you to know so you can potentially fix it!! This has apparently happened before for non windows users due to a repackaging error? But it may differ, but just letting you know! Either way I'm anticipated to play your game

This is going to be a lengthy comment but I hope I convey what this game made me feel well. (spoilers ahead)

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This game was not what I expected at all, I kinda had an impression/saw what I was getting in for when I saw the reviews and comments, I'm not that bothered by spoilers but man. I may not have felt as extreme emotions as people are saying they experienced playing this game, but it has given me a lot to think and reflect on.

Like many have said, they used to be and are/were Anitas and Sunnys. I feel the same, but despite what Sunny has done, even after the reveal by the end of her "true"/double identity, I couldn't help but feel bad and seen by her and Anita. A lot of times, I grow frustrated with myself now looking back on my younger years where I've been treated like Anita was by Sunny, or when I acted like a Sunny to any Anitas who knew me. I feel like the biggest "evilest" person in the world for not realizing the harm and ultimately how pointless my actions were. I've come to realize lately that I feel like I've tried to regain some sense of control/agency I felt like I never had, if I could smart enough or good enough, it would change who I am for the better. I still fear that I can never change the past and the "me" right now, that truthfully, I've always been a Sunny and I will go on to do what Sunny has done to more people, I'll never be anything more than a Sunny till the day I die. It feels hard to really accept advice to "embrace yourself and your past" cause I feel like I need to punish myself, that I can be "healed" from my true self, it feels like drowning. I'm losing my train of thought lowkey but I really saw myself in everyone. In Anita's conflict with herself (quite literally) and how powerless she is, Sunny's bizarre and black and white thinking even if it's def not to the extremes she's taken, she still reminds me of the person I am capable of becoming. I hope Anita in some way some how is able to accept herself truly, and if somehow, Sunny was able to gain some introspection about herself in another life...

That all aside, I really loved the visuals and the sound design, the lack of music and the isolated sound affects were very affective, the ui was cool too! This is strange but I remember you from when I was into TTCC, I still think back on the fanfic you did back then, it's real cool.

Execellent game, makes me think a lot, sorry for all those words or if I've overshared.

let's all love chasity ❤️

Really lovely playing and reading experience, I liked the environments especially as they got more distorted along the way, this game really tapped into the part of me that loves both floral and marine life stuff.

Daizy is a very compelling character, I really related to her and how she felt/acted especially in relation to her psychosis. Daizy and Anisia were just really sweet to me, also I really liked what you conveyed with Daizy's past/home life with her mom, just something else that really sticks with me.

Really awesome game :-]

reporting back and it now works! thnxs for the response :-]

As a singaporean, I was extremely suprised to see a game about singapore like this. It feels nice and authentic having lived here my whole life. Despite how different the protagonist's struggles are to mine, I feel very seen by her. I feel ashamed to not be very good in my mother tongue, nor do I speak malay or tamil, but seeing a game where all four languages are front and centre makes me smile. Thank you so much for this experience.

hello! I'm unsure if this is a user-specific problem on my end, but with linux I can't seem to run the shellscript file natively? Nothing pops up, I hope this is appropiate to post for in case this is a bug! All other renpy game shellscripts I have run fine

Beautiful game, from both a writing and art point. I felt a lot like Zoey especially near the ends... and I also felt a lot like Cherry.  Loved layout of the story and the little things like sound effects and music :-], the ending is very bittersweet.

tysm!! That makes me really happy to know that you related to my work, a lot of it definitely is written from experience... Your words are very kind :-], I should play your submission to the jam too, the art interested me!!