really good!! i love to see fellow bugs making stuff :>B3
great music, fun art style. We love to see hollow vessel representation <3
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Fantastic little game, very peaceful and full of love.
The expressions and movement are especially well done, I love the designs of all the characters. The sketchy art-style works well.
I noticed a bug, if you walk to the left edge of the screen, the "shadows" filter that follows lepiota doesn't cover the whole screen.
As a minor QOL thing, you could remove the pause menu function, as it pops up with the default rpgmaker dude as lepiota's sprite.
Wowie! This was a truly engrossing read.
The character writing is impeccable, and you set the scenes so vividly. All the pieces are set up to mesh together so perfectly; Larkin's family dynamic especially sticks out to me as especially deliciously well-written. I love the conflict between Larkin's upbringing as a killer and her desire to stray from that upbringing, and the conflict the things unpoken between her and Brooke brings up in their relationship.
I would love to have more ambient sounds; children playing on a schoolyard, the crackle of a campfire, birdsong.
The backgrounds you used are perfect, I'm impressed with how vivid this story felt.
I'm itching to read the final act!
Great job with this! I've been the lamb before, though as the story goes, it's not always the easiest to remember such experiences.
Really great use of the plushies as sprites, and the backgrounds in general, they really add to the "dissociative, depersonalizing" tone.
I like what you did with the text changing and blacking out parts, it captures the on-the-fly doublethink and cognitive-rewrites that become necessary when going through this.
good god there's penice 😳
banger of a vn! Right to the point, no fucking around; your writing is so tight and clean.I'm so glad you opted for a shorter, punchier story over making it longer and less polished.
Eye-catching art, great scenario, ripper soundtrack. No breath is wasted, and every part of this flows like a fighter in the ring.
Big fan of the girls!
i LOVE your character designs! the expressions, poses, and color choices are so good!
The audio choices were cute, big fan of carameldansen. The character talk blips were a bit distracting, and were on the sfx slider and not the voice slider, so i couldnt turn them off without losing all the other sfx. :(
Mother, You and I Are Not Bernadette Mayer comments · Posted in Mother, You and I Are Not Bernadette Mayer comments
Reading this made me feel really, really bad.
Fantistic sound design. Beautiful art. Masterful prose.
Nobody makes it through childhood unscathed. It hurt seeing C--- get treated in ways familiar to my own upbringing; ways I have thoughout my adult life slowly been un-repressing. Memories of sexual awakening during sexual abuse, that only became available to me through recreating those scenes as an adult. Feelings of overwhelming rejection of getting teased and turned on by caretakers, and then being turned down. Buying forgiveness with fast food, video games, bread and circuses. Being degraded, ignored, talked down to, praised, overwhelmingly praised. Being made to provide intimacy to your parents, or anyone they instruct you to, and being expected to do so eagerly, lest my rejection hurt their feelings. Being beaten and neglected into a perfect, precocious child. Struggling to simply survive the environment you were born into, never given any indication that things aren't supposed to be this way. Being the perfect child and understanding it will never be enough and that terrifying you. Growing attached to, loving, and *needing* the abuse that you've grown to expect.
And loving the people who put you through that.
The body keeps the score, and good god, i'm losing harder than i can bear to understand.
This story was difficult to read. I imagine it was moreso to live through, and doubly so to share. Thank you for doing so in spite of that.
Ophee's design is so cute! The monster designs were really cool, they make me think of the monsters in PMMD (madoka magica.) The visual design throughout was cohesive and the style was interesting.
The platforming levels felt. out of place? lacking something? They felt more like something to make the player do while the story was conveyed, rather than to show off the gameplay itself. The camera felt a little up close / tight, and the platforming never felt challenging to me, so it felt more like a chore I had to do before I was allowed to get back to the bullet-hell sections.
The bossfights were fun! I feel that the mechanic of charging while standing still felt stiff. The spider fight felt like she had far too much health, and while I quite enjoyed the fight overall, it overstayed its welcome by taking too long.
The music was pretty, I especially enjoyed the music in the crystal caves and the related boss fight.
The narrative was cute, and the little details throughout were nice to read. I went for the "no watch" ending, and was glad to see yuri save the day. I don't have the wherewithall to play through twice, though I am interested in the space-robot insects and how that ending would have played out.
I encountered a gameplay bug when entering the first bossfight; I was holding D and space, and Ophee never appeared. I tried walking around, jumping, etc, and eventually just had to save, quit, and restart.
Really sweet story! the horny aspects of it felt surprisingly heartfelt, loving, and safe. <3
i love how Luna feels so safe just having someone be honest with her that she is just being used and consumed.
I felt so seen by act 3, and how it was to be in a relationship with someone who makes you be a man, and blames you for it being a shit relationship. :(
i had to put off starting my transition for half a year because my partner at the time wanted biological kids soooooo bad, and made *me* pay to freeze sperm (an extensively long, and dysphoria inducing process) before I was *allowed to start HRT, or she would have left me.
loved playing this game. It's got a fantastic sense of humor. The art style is unique and appealing, you can click all the pretty green things, there's labcoats and big round glasses. The character designs are FANTASTIC. I love the different expressions, but molly's are probably my favourite. :p
(minor spoilers below)
The pov character looks very much like us and has a whole lot in common in terms of system dynamics, nearly 1 to 1 in fact. (minus the imperialist schtick) It was fun being put in a situation and seeing where different parts of us taking the lead would guide the story. I'm interested in what an EM ending would look like, but I'm not too certain she has much of a presence outside of moderating the system, so maybe that wouldnt fit. The way the endings are shown, and the different things you learn through the different playthroughs is done well, and makes replaying the game feel much more interesting.
The parts with being bullied as molly were really hot. I'm very into being hypnotized, but i think i read this in too distracting of an environment to be tranced by the hypnosis parts of the story.
We joked about the game making us more plural, but it really did help us be more conscious about making choices regarding how we choose to respond or speak as a system. It helped us recognize some of the ways our system could operate more equitably, and understand some of worse ways things have gone internally in the past. We think it made us better at consciously choosing who we are, which is something we've never been able to do much before.
Thank you, from all of us, for making this.
Consider my chakras clenched.
Entrancing narrative of young-adult alienation, seeking purpose in obsession, and dulling danger-perception through exposure and trust.
(minor spoilers follow)
There is a pervasive sense of doom that Ana radiates as she is pulled in by the overwhelming gravity of the moon. The pacing, the foreshadowing, the tone; all danse together as we watch Ana be pulled along by the red string of fate that her particular views, experiences, and life have tied her to.
Incredible character writing, and design! I love all the little details that guide ana to lower her inhibitions; her sense of security from obsessing over true crime, her beliefs surrounding harm always and only coming from men, her catholic upbringing leaving her needing similar higher powers to place her faith in.
Excellent work with the visuals; they flow together seamlessly.
As a tonal album pairing, I would recommend "Burn Pygmalion!!! a better guide to romance." by The Scary Jokes.
it won't stop hurting and that's all i will ever want.
Devastating, bleak, and proper. Captures in excruciating detail the pain, trauma, and how gosh-dang tiring it is to do basic tasks while living with disability.
Brilliant work with the ui. Some of the lines leave me speechless. One of the most salient works I have read relating to the dehumanization inherent to being a piece of meat as one's career.
