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I finally finished!!! I'm so upset about it!!! I hate that I'm done!! ARGH!!! NOOOOO. I cried a little at one ending which is so rare for me. I loved it so much I'm incoherent about it.

These are great too, thanks for your work!

Awesome, thanks for sharing!!

This sounds amazing! Thanks for your hard work!

Lovely bite-sized piece, really shows what you can evoke with a clear & consistent aesthetic and a matching feeling drawn with words!

So sweet!

[SPOILERS - for anyone reading this]

I loved how Lucy also had a mini arc about self truth and acceptance.

I loved the ending. I went "nooooo" when it was first revealed that the spell was on a timer and until the story switched to Lucy's perspective I was worried it was going to be a bittersweet ending. For a short and sweet adventure, what we got instead was perfect. :)

Very cute! The y2k tag is well placed. Really nostalgic and familiar feeling of what it felt like to make friends in early college in the first days on your own (tragically making friends only gets harder from there!). And also I love the coherence in the UI and this itch page to that feeling :)

I thought this was so lovely! It usually takes a lot for stories that are slice-of-life/real-life-adjacent to draw me in, and I have a strong bias for sapphic stories over others. But I let the YouTube algorithm go off for Research and caught some of a stream of chapter one, and I was so charmed that it turned from background listening to "now I'm not getting anything done" so I came here to see the rest.

The art is lovely - the characters are detailed so well and I love the little animations like blinking adding a ton of polish. The writing and story is just so charming. I don't know that I can put it another way. Very sweet, very engaging, and not boring for a moment. There was some secondhand embarrassment but as someone who can be very squeamish about that I think it was just the right amount :)

It also hit a bit different for me as a half Korean person, so I loved that aspect.

I'm sure you know this already but just letting you know in case you end up working on it again, the only really buggy-adjacent things I encountered were the phone screens being kinda wonky here and there, and some typos/grammar things in the text. But the polish is still pretty incredible for a jam entry. And I'm very happy to have had the opportunity to donate for the game to support the dev team~

I enjoyed the game a lot, especially (as I see others have mentioned) the general tension in the atmosphere that was contributed to by story, art and UI :))

Thanks very much! :)