Aw, this was so sweet and fun! Laughed out loud many times. Excellent art/characters, very nicely written and sound designed too. Felt so seamless and polished with a lot of attention to detail that made me totally invested in these two and their predicament. Really nicely done!
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This is so stylish and well-rounded! Really standout art and UI, and the music is quite striking as well! I love the folktale presentation of both Sylvie and Gretchen's backstories. The central conflict between Gretchen's professional obligations and her personal desires, not just for romance but fellowship and understanding, is set up very effectively. High expectations for the full story when it comes out!
Wow! Cool to see such an in-depth historical entry to the jam, and I really like the premise and alternating timeline. Very expressive character art and CGs. So cinematic! I'd watch the hell out of this as a film. Corinna and Orso are so cute as kids/teens, such charming dialogue and I found their early conversations particularly moving.
I did have some difficulty following along with the text at times, especially with the frequent point of view shifts between characters and some confusing wording. A closer line edit pass could have helped the vision really shine here. But it was usually clear what was meant and overall I found this engrossing, well-paced, and dramatic. Prodigiously developed story for a limited timeline jam entry. The tension was intense and I never felt bored, and could never guess what would happen next--had to read it in one go even though it took nearly 4h! So bleak and wild. And that ending... I hope more folks find this one because it's a very ambitious project and an impressive job.
Oh this is an all timer. Excruciatingly gorgeous in every detail. The prose is completely unhinged (restrained limpidity who now?) but often to great effect in its expression of a dazzling, ornate, but myopic fairy mind. And Katurian...god I love my horrible deranged sadistic giant mom and she deserves whatever she gets.
YESSS!!! Outrageously brilliant. The textures and collage look phenomenal, with the intentionally naive/eclectic art direction so fully bearing out the premise in all its disorienting layers and jaw-dropping twists. This thing SMELLS like university library stacks and aging paper. The writing is so charming and elegant, especially in the early dreams and the strange apocryphal register of the transcribed manuscripts. And the pace is so wonderfully restrained, really taking its time so each escalation hits like a train.
Frame narratives!! Suppressed girls touching each other through projections, fantasies, fabricated histories, academia and dreams! Revolutionary Girl Utena mentioned! This is what I'm TALKING about! Truly excellent work I'm going to be telling everyone I know about about this one for a long time
This was the first other Toxic Yuri VN Jam submission I reached for and I loved it! Stylish, evocative and well-paced writing, sickening and sexy story, great sound design. Love a lonely gothic dirge in spooky, beautiful, minimally-explained world. And such a cool choice to make it in Decker!
(heads up I had trouble getting this to run properly in Decker itself, but it played beautifully in browser so I didn't sweat it!)
Love the entire thing! Absolutely stunning drawings and mixed media collages, every screen just so cohesive and breathtakingly composed. The writing is stomach-turning and the sounds/score do a lot of great work with a minimal touch. This felt so complete. Textures, yes! Plant/insect/fungus body horror yes yes YES!!!
Oh this is messed up! Love Emerald. Sierra girl what the hell. The art rules, the drawings are so skilled and expressive. I liked the subtlety of the sprite changes, just enough to help track who's talking but v tonally effective too. Found all the shifts in visuals/perspective super creative and exciting. When something weird happens and it gets in your head!!
Would have loved to be able to change text speed for reading comfort. But the story and tension were gripping and nasty (complimentary), really enjoyed it!

