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OKAY HI I AM LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS GAME ACTUALLY 😭💖 I went into Willowmist thinking 'oh cute cozy shop game' and came out emotionally attached to PIXELS like this demo had NO RIGHT??? 

The ART is SO gorgeous and soft and nostalgic omg the artists are amazing and those background are crazy detailed, the whole town just feels alive in that quiet, magical, rainy-afternoon way that makes you want to stay forever. And THE CHARACTERS???

florian has absolutely destroyed me - the tired vampire energy, the awkwardness, the softness under the grumpiness, arrrghh he was made just for meeee. and then EMMETT shows up with his stiff attitude and i was like. damn. you cant do this to me two and a half studios. I am kicking my feet every time he’s on screen. The way you can bond with everyone even platonically is SO GOOD and makes the town feel like a found family already, and the writing is funny but also warm and sweet. I kept stopping just to stare at backgrounds and listen to the soundtrack and scream internally about dialogue. This demo has fully convinced me that Willowmist is going to be one of Those Games™ that lives in my brain forever. I am OBSESSED, I am INVESTED, I am counting the days, please take my money immediately, thank you for ruining my life in the coziest possible way. 

fuck i love visual novels.

i lvoe the art arrrghhhhhh

ren omg....

I LOOOOVE THISSSS cant wait for the full game!!!!!!!!

this game was fun! i enjoyed the characters. i feel like the video call sections of the game kinda let the rest down, the programming was a little janky there (maybe a first time programmer on that section?) but the audio did sound really good, so kudos to the editor there. offkey best girl.

Hi there,

I just played through the demo and I have some concerns. I’m going to write them out below, sorry for the long post.

First of all - will this game be commercial? If so, do you intend to update the main menu GUI, seeing as it’s the basic ren’py one but with some random paint brushes here and there? It looks very unprofessional and not becoming of a paid product.

As for the textbox - is this a placeholder? The colors are too saturated and bright, and it looks amateur. I can see it’s meant to be a French street sign, but they didn’t look like this until after 1950. It kind of ruins the beautiful backgrounds to have a big, ugly textbox.

I noticed quite a few grammatical mistakes, too. I wanted to ask if you have an editor or a proofreader? Also, in places, the English is a little wonky. “Get out the road” should either be “” Get out of the road” or “Get off the road”, for instance.

When you get into Paul’s room, the room is already full of painting supplies. Is this just to save money on variations, or is there something else planned here?

The paint brush that shows at the end of sentences also is often in the wrong place and covers the words.

On the choice where you decide whether to approach the woman or not in the flower shop, even if you pick to let her browse Nathalie still says “Perhaps that direct approach works well in the country” which doesn’t make sense.

In general, some of the sprites expressions are, well.. They’re downright creepy. For Ferdinand, some of the expressions change his face so much that he doesn’t even look the same.

So, that’s pretty much it. The backgrounds were lovely (props to the artist), and the premise was fine, but the way it was executed was rather poor.

I hope you’ll improve this before it goes on Kickstarter.