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the ui in this game is absolutely breathtaking!! everything feels so clean and professional. i love the effects when you hover over buttons (both visual and audio). the art style is also gorgeous! the writing is smooth and casual, feels super nice to read. im excited for the full game!! keep up the great work!

super excited for the full game! i love leander so much, he's like fully my type haha. all of the other love interests look really interesting too! and the art style of the game is amazing. i love the spooky vibes and especially how with some of them (vere) you can tell that you're teetering between flirting with him and possibly being killed by him.

this game is so cool! it really captures the feeling of playing an mmorpg, ESPECIALLY all the drama haha. i would be lying if i said the beginning where kumiko-chan is flaming everyone didn't give me flashbacks to my XIV raid days.

i did encounter a few bugs though. i've only played through chris's route, but in the conversation where he sends you a selfie, i closed the PMs, opened the harmonies notif, then went back through the community tab and opened PMs with reminiscence again. and the options included the ones from day one where they poach your member. also after the video call the day previous, the cg of him stayed on screen after he hung up.

the demo is great! amazing art style, fun setting, the ui is super clean. i enjoy the characters and aziz is totally my type LOL. i like the idea of having two different protagonists, but making them have noticeably different personalities instead of just being genderbends of each other. the writing is very nice and dialogue feels natural!

the music is also super nice!

only complaint is some minor things such as the save and skip systems. having a page with multiple save files, and the ability to skip to the next choice would make playing through different routes much easier. (maybe these are in the demo and im just dense? i'm used to renpy visual novels haha). i finished aziz's route first, then reloaded my quicksave (which was right before route selection) to try out different options, and got to the meeting with inanna and died. i went back and saw it saved over my previous quicksave, so i had to redo my file from the start :( not a huge deal, just not super user friendly. 

overall i'm looking forward to a full release! i can tell yall put tons of love and effort into this game, it has a lot of heart.

this is such an interesting game! the world you guys have built is super engaging, and i lovee kier. the addition of an aftercare scene is very thoughtful, and something i've never seen in any other games. i think it's a very nice touch <3 i'm excited to see future chapters! 

(also a small bug i've noticed: if you scroll up to view previous text, the music will stop playing for the rest of that file. only way to fix is to reload a save from before you scrolled up)

this game is great!! the artwork is beautiful, love the writing (super playful and punchy), characters are fun and modern without being corny, worldbuilding is interesting, and i like the gameplay of being able to explore around. my only complaint is the fishing minigame is SUPER hard, at least for me.  the indicator moves a little too quickly for me to reliably catch fish

overall, this demo is super impressive especially for being a solo developed game! im excited to see where this goes! wishing you luck on any future development! 

can i just say i agree with literally your ENTIRE comment? but specifically i relate wayyy too much to your comments on fritz's route. [will also be mentioning some spoilers here, if anyone hasn't completed fritz's route yet then tread carefully!]

1. recognizing varg was fritz as soon as i saw him in rods route (the first route i played). i didn't expect it to be some kind of alter ego thing though, i was just sitting there like "why did they make fritz wear a wig." i was trying to figure it out the entire time before i got to fritz's route, but i didn't end up thinking of a reason until it was actually told to me. 

2. falling for varg as well. by the end of the route i was sitting there like "FUCK GO BACK." i really wanted to show varg some love as well as everyone else, lol. i thought it was so sweet how he talks about how fritz's love for you must've rubbed off on him because hes falling for you too. "but you could never love me" just fuck me up dicesuki. speaking of dicesuki fucking me up, im with you on how much death there was in fritz's route. in all the other routes there was basically no death- maybe 1 or 2 causalities, mostly only if you got a bad ending. and then fritz came in like a fucking TRUCK and ran over my HEART.  

i finished this game! so now i wanna write my full thoughts on it, apologies in advance for how long this comment is.

i really enjoyed all of the characters! i definitely think, if you're going to go for all the routes, you should play them in the order that's recommended. (rod, karma, rumple, fritz, waltz.) i don't like getting info repeated to me, or having to sit through a route when you know some crucial thing but your character doesn't, and playing in that order minimizes it a lot. each route unveiled some more info that i didn't know yet, and the retreading of things you already know doesn't take that much time. waltz's route also definitely felt like a true ending.

when you play through every route you really end up loving everyone. somehow, rumpel went from a route that i thought i was just gonna play to complete the game, to one of my favorite characters... though all of the characters are basically my favorite characters now. rumpel and fritz's routes ended up making me fall in love with waltz before i even got to his own route. all of the routes are great, but waltz's and fritz's are a step above, tbh. if nothing else, you should play this game for their routes (and since you need to play 2 routes to unlock them, you might as well play all the routes!). fritz's made me almost cry about 3 times, and waltz's had me crying before i was even halfway through. the writing in this game is truly top notch.

i really want to specifically praise the way lucette's relationship with her father is written. i also have a very strained relationship with my own father, and i related maybe a bit too much to her in that sense. the writer(s?) handled it with a lot of grace and made it into something realistic and beautiful. thank you for that, genuinely. it really touched my heart.

this game has so much polish. considering its a free game, i was surprised. the right choice indicator, the little chimes that play as you hover over options, the beautiful art (i feel that rods sprites are especially well drawn), the intricate dialogue box, all of them give this real sense of class to the game. it genuinely feels like a visual novel i would be willing to pay $15-25 for. 

my only real gripes with the game would be:

1. the fact that you're still step siblings with rod no matter what ending you get. i dunno, i love rod, i like his personality, his design, his story, ect, but it feels odd to play a route where your mc is dating their own step brother. and it gets brought up multiple times in the text. i get that they arent blood related, but... it just sits strangely. also

 [SPOILER WARNING FOR ROD'S ROUTE] i wish it was covered somehow, is the king in love with ophelia solely because of rod's curse? did the king love her before, but only go to find her because of the curse? or did he have no clue she existed, but because of the deal rod made, he fell in love and sought her out? maybe it was implied, or said somewhere and i'm forgetting, but i would love to know. though i guess if it wasn't explained, it could always be explained in the sequel. [END SPOILER WARNING]

2. that theres not an annice route!!! holy crap i literally fell in love with annice as soon as she appeared. every time lucette was mean to her it hurt my very soul. i wouldn't even care if it was just a friendship route and not a romantic one, just lemme tell annice that i appreciate her, i respect her, i respect everything she does for the marchen... but i digress. 

to end this long as hell comment, this game is honestly amazing. i'm super excited for the sequel and i'll be waiting patiently for its release! i can't wait to return to the wonderful world you guys crafted.