OH EM GOSH!!! I positively ADORED this game! like all of the little details are so crazy cool.
Before I go into a rant about how cool this game is, small spoiler warning.
Okay, the way you went out of your way to add cat sound affects when you went down the party routes and dog sound affects when you went down the batting cage routes is so wonderfully vivid and it was such a fun thing to notice on my first playthrough.
The messy, frantic artsyle of the entire game adds so much to the experience and the amount of art youve managed to pack in there is super impressive. Plus all of it has this grand amount of espressiveness to it that really makes the game come to life! One of my personal favorite details was the way that Milo flicks his earing while talking in the party route, it adds such a layer of personality to him.
This detail took me a second to notice but I found it SO cool is how you change the background of each characters nametag to symbolize who they are as a person or their role in the game, and for Milo, how his name tag changes throughout the game to symbolize his change. Its especially cool how every nametag image is an eye motif. My personal favorite was Valli's, i love the stroking lines and rigid nature of it, which seems to reflect her outwardly brash personality. Correct me if im wronng but the middle arms or tendrils or whatever of it almost look like their holding drum sticks (not the food but the instrument kind just to clarify).
Desmonds is cool because it showcases how he sees whats going on, but isnt entirely active in whats happening. A weary observer.
And as for Seph, we dont see much of him in the game so I honestly dont really know but I do know it looks super cool with the little markings around it.
And Milos, the squinted eye slowly opening into an eye that looks down, as if meeting Eris' gaze, in the party route, or up, as if blindly following Eris, in the batting cage route? yet again SO COOL!!!
Additionally, I loved the development with Ryans story and backstory, and how to find out all of the details of Ryans story (and Eris' part in it) you have to play through pretty much all of the routes. It made each new route played feel all that more gratifying!
This is a smaller one, but how the MC's og name is Eris, after the goddess of strife and discord, was also such a cool detail.
Plus the loading and save screens changing depending on which route/part of the game youre on? AMAZING.
I know ive probably gushed a bit too much in this review, but the long and short of it is that you did a killer job with this game and id reccomend it to any and everyone. The amount of work and detail youve put into it, along with the fun gameplay and wicked story line make for a truly unique and enjoyable game. I hope to see more works of yours in the future!