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This has to be one of my favorite visual novels I've ever played. The character writing is wonderful, I really felt for Tia and Gem, both do horrible things, but it never feels like they go too far in a way that stops making sense. The huge time span of the story definitely gives a lot of room to play around with suspension of disbelief. Tia and Gem don't become inhuman, but they do become different (immortality is fucked up!!!)

There were a handful of points in the story that I thought would mark a point of no return for the two's relationship, and in a way yeah there are? but also there aren't, not in the way that they fully have it out for each other 100% of the time for forever now. Because forever is a really long time, and there's only the two of them. Hellish roommate situation xd. I love love love premises like this, where a couple of characters are isolated and stuck in a situation(tm). Because even after tearing each other apart, they are still each others only comfort.

I cried reading the scene of Tia watching herself die through Rosa's eyes. Just really really well done, evocative writing. And alongside the pain and suffering it's fun too, Gem's interest in her deserted island scrimblo bimblos is infectious (maybe also some projection going on there lol). The overall attention to detail in all the different historical references, but also all the stuff Tia researches, is crazy for a jam game.

About the visuals, the sprites are so fucking cute. I love them. Especially how the mouths are drawn. There's something about it that's really charming! My personal favorite sprite is Gem's wide smile, she is EXTATIC and it's just so fun. This is just such a fun game full of pain and suffering I can't help but repeat myself. The backgrounds are scrunchy and the UI is squishy, it all fits together super well. The soundtrack too! The different songs fit so well I thought they were custom made for the game.

So yeah, good job and thank you for sharing this game. I really enjoyed it and it may have changed my brain chemistry. Spent at least six hours of my last work day trying to figure out what is going on here. What is this place? Uhhh purgatory/Eden/deserted island/The Good Place. Who is Andrea? I don't know! Why Tia and Gem? Getting run over Isekai style joined them in death, that's why. 10/10

I have to admit I haven't read Odyssey or Ulysses, so I'm missing a lot of context story-wise, but I was grabbed by the visual style of this vn, presenting the text and images as if on the pages of a book, side by side. I think this choice is really charming and works well with the tone of the story (silly but sincere). The prose is a nice blend of modern slang and literary language, neither overpowers the other.

Who knows, maybe I will even shape up and read Odyssey and Ulysses to understand this vn better xd
Dear Stephen's POV was my favorite thing to read, poor hungry little kitten...

I'm writing this review just after reading this for the first time, and I do want to read it again because I feel like there are many layers to this story that I must have missed on the first read through.

The world described felt very real. It felt like it was based on personal lived experience. And the character's. They all felt distinct from each other. Uniquely infuriating? At least Alba was xd. Her actions were confusing to me, maybe because I bought into her self-image as the most rational person in the room. And that confusion makes her stick to my mind more. The whole story really captured me in a way that I can't put into words. Thank you for making it!

Very sweet. Your depiction of the characters' love for each other was nuanced in a way I don't see depicted often. (As in they're unsure if they even are in love.) (And what does being "in love" really mean?) Both parties want the best for the relationship and might even be a good match, but it still doesn't work out as they'd hoped. Their reaching the final stop would have been a very fairytale happily-ever-after -esque ending. Thank you for making this game <3

I love how you conveyed Lexona's betrayed feelings and the last "safe" place in her life being tainted, it was upsetting to read, but in a good way. Revo's POV at the end was interesting too. A lot and at the same time very little was left open ended. Revo is fatalistic about their future, and I can't blame her. 

Also am very surprised to have learned from the other comments that you made this in only 6 days! Nice job.

Super cute story. I was kind of on Paczki's side and thought the noise machine was evil at first but I'm glad it wasn't...Or at least didn't do anything super malevolent? I think it really was trying to help the mc and I think that's sweet :(
Also really nice layering on both the sounds and visuals, was relaxing.

Thank you! I was inspired by the UI overlay in ebi-hime's It gets so lonely here.

I have to admit I really like writing fucked up changes the character's can't seemingly back out from, but it's always a challenge reading about them :,) Probably because when it's someone else's work you can't know for sure what's coming up.

Hi, it's not available anymore as I wasn't exactly proud of it + I got freaked out about people irl finding my itch page :,) Thank you though!

Maaan I really needed that Bonus scene after oughhh...This was very intense, good job. What happens is disgusting, and all parts of the experience worked together really nicely, text, audio and visuals. The shock that came after for Lana was written super convincingly and was genuinely upsetting. Her recollection of all the things that she did / could have done differently to change the outcome was amazing to read. The what-if thoughts are agonizing on their own but then paired with the fact that she also got the camera replay of what happened along with her own memories. I really loved this, it feels like you thought of every way you could make this more sad and horrible and took it :)

Thank you! Everything I write turns into slow burn regardless of if I wanted it or not :D So I'm glad you liked it! I went with the small face sprites this time around due to the time constraint, but I ended up pretty happy with them too.

God help her! She ought to help herself as well, but I don't know if she'll get around to that anytime soon...

Thank you so much for the kind words!!! That scene was also my favorite to write so I'm super glad you liked it!

Thank you so much for the kind words! And yeah I would hope the Committee gets on this asap :( they've got a big backlog.

I enjoyed it. The sprite work is very cute. Long nosed and fat women supremacy!

About the story (spoilers): 

I didn't read the warnings, so I was pretty surprised by what the story ended up being about. I think it's completely possible to have a healthy relationship even if it starts out with attraction that's closely intertwined with the other person's fetish. This largely depends on respect, seeing the other as their own, whole person. Which Delilah spectacularly fails at :,) I mean, she tries to satisfy her own fetish covertly, telling Stacey about it only when forced to.

I found the depiction of Delilah's pushiness and manipulation believable, especially in the scene where Stacey feels the need to apologize to her over nothing.

Stacey herself was pretty relatable. Just a girl trying to get by... The depiction of her eating disorder, especially the shame and guilt of it, was done well, I think. In the end I wondered if her outburst at Delilah was more motivated by the anxiety her disordered thinking was causing her, or the constant struggle of getting her wants ignored by Delilah, even if "nicely". Probably both.

The game left me with a lot to think about! Thanks for sharing it :)

This was a fun and disconcerting read. This may say more about the reader than the vn, but I found this even funny at some points with how desperate/fucked up the main character was vs. Linette's obliviousness (though she was probably pretending not to understand to save the mc the shame).

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In the end maybe Linette was the dinosaur the closest to being good here...Abigail said some messed up stuff too, though it makes sense for her as a character, being in a position of high expectation and stress.

Initially I interpreted Linette in an unfavourable way too, what with her not remembering the mc's name and seeming a bit dismissive, but she takes care of hundreds of people! The mc's indignation over that really hammers home her ignorance of the things going on outside of her own  experience, but also the sad impossibility of Linette seeing her as someone special.

The mc is interesting too. Her inner thoughts are written bluntly, which really helps in not beautifying them.

The death scene with Josephine was probably my favorite. Really creative in its grossness. The descriptions of settings were also evocative, and, well, gross in a good way!

Really cute in its simplicity! The story, despite being very short (or maybe because of it ) wraps up really nicely :)

Thank you :,)) I'm glad to hear that you found it interesting. Your comment has made me really happy, waahh...
And thanks for the note about the typo! I def did mean to write molars, there are probably some more left over from the last minute read-through :D