oh my dude my guy my dude i love love love chemistry with all my heart. i took ap chem as a junior in 2018, and now i'm a chem major shooting to become an ap chem teacher someday, and i have entrenched so much of chem into my daily life you have no idea. i've tutored many, many peers and underclassmen in chem since my junior year, written and graded tests and homework in my senior year, and gotten myself into a chem class with only one other first year now in college. honestly there were times where doing and practicing chemistry literally kept me alive.
that being said i feel like this should come as no surprise that i didn't come here for the romancing, but the chemistry itself lol. however, despite finding it difficult to make eye contact with the drawings at times, i was still drawn in by the characters. i really appreciate the fact that despite it being an early demo, all the characters have solid visuals and personalities. they're also all super adorable and i love them hehehe
in terms of chem, i went for the stoich lesson because i love stoichiometry. i liked the beef stew analogy; it had this very homey feeling to it compared to the hamburgers/hot dogs analogy i usually hear for the topic. by that point in their teaching, however, there should be the phases listed after all the components in a balanced equation, regardless of whether it's supposed to be baby review or not. i'm pretty sure ap knocks off credit if you don't *finger guns* (don't quote me on that tho). sometimes answers were really similar numerically, and it made me kinda nervous because i noticed there were rounding differences in the example and so i wasn't sure which to trust. i noticed you tend to round early, which definitely accounts for the differences (and makes ap mad), so when polishing up the game (definitely not now while you're still getting the core down; don't mind my nitpicking for now lol) i would recommend cleaning that up a bit.
i really liked that you warned at the start of the game to have your own periodic table because you honestly could've just given us all the relevant numbers and stuff, but that's just not realistic, and i like the idea of an added challenge to people less initiated with chemistry.
realistically, i think that if she worked hard at it, marina could pass the ap. probably not with flying colors because i genuinely think mr. kagaku is way too soft on all of them. his main motivating factor seems to be via affection, and he's kind about their grades, but really effective teaching needs an equal mix of affection and *fear* from students. plus, april is far too late for the class to be primarily lectures imo. april is time for grinding for the ap, which is just lots of tests and mock exams and quizzes. (grading around this time is fun fun fun y'know lol). then again, that would probably shoot marina's stress up to 99 in a week and it wouldn't really run as well with the spirit of the game so really it's fine
honestly i had so much fun playing this!!! i was a bit sad that none of the lectures after the first one were available, so i just stopped going to the after school lectures after that. the music was adorable and i love love loved all of it!!! also a minor detail, but making the cursor into an erlenmeyer was absolutely adorable. the character relationships were a ton of fun!!! kinda sad that i'm now caught up :C
i guess to sum up this is fun and i really really enjoyed the demo!!!! keep up the good work!!!!! C: