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Wow... just... okay I want to start with my only real negative point, which is that I personally found the Tsuzumi sister dialogue uncomfortable. Otherwise like great characters, great themes, great art, great music... okay I'm going to try and be specific for once.

Lightning round here:

• Characters: I love almost everyone, but just, Atcchan is adorable and I had so much fun reading about people calling him cute for personal reasons (I'm a short guy, lol, that's the personal reason), but also he has actual flaws that he's working to overcome
• Themes: I really love the inclusion of non-romance routes, and not always having to choose between your friends
• Art: I'm no artist, so I'll just stick to something close to home and say the purposely bad drawing in the Tsuzumi route was hilarious
• Music: I bought my Lovey-Dovey Demon nearly two years ago, so borrowing the countryside song from there gave me exactly perfect nostalgia

Anyway, yeah, great game, I'm so happy you remade this and I hope more people get to enjoy it this way!

PS: Could you maybe put the mature content description from Steam on here as well (assuming I'm not just missing it)? I think it's good for people to know about that stuff going in. Thanks.

That's sad to hear, but I'm glad she can live on through this at least!

This was really sweet, and I liked how capable Holly was despite what one might expect from the whole maid framing (not that I was surprised myself having read your other work, but still). Also the soundtrack was a nice treat, I was not expecting the 90s-style music but it was really good. Finally, the name "Magical Pumpkin" is intriguing to me, did you base that on an existing show or did you just think it was funny?

Perfect, thank you!

Also, what colors does this page use? I'd like to match them, and also they're very pretty.

sugoi, with that in mind here is an itch link for everyone: https://opiter09.itch.io/nian-res-publica-saccharina-neconina

Hello, my apologies for just posting this here, and I will certainly take it down if you like, but I don't really know how to get in touch with you otherwise so... Anyway, I made a Latin translation for this game! It does require the original (for all that that matters for a free game, I suppose), and can be found here: [EDIT: see the itch.io link below].

Very unique and interesting mechanics. Making a puzzle out of the "id" (pun-intented) genre is certainly a feat.

this was sugoi (or should I say, mirabile), thank you for making it!

This was like a solid short story in VN format. Also these are very pretty sprites, so I hope that one day they are used in something bigger.

This game was absolutely amazing--the humor, the surprisingly tense fights, and who could forget the lion cameo. My friend remarked that "someone had fun making this", and I really hope everyone involved did.

I was playing on Windows (11).

I finished the whole game, some of it was funny, most of it was very sad (not that that’s a problem or anything, to be clear), and everything was very well-written as always. Dream 9 also actually made me think about time loops more, so good job with that.

I also got dream 11, but I kind of cheated accidentally, I had got through part of the last puzzle, then clicking on a piece somehow gave me a "divide by zero" error screen, and after I hit Ignore the puzzle finished automatically.

Finally. thank you for making that chronological collection, because the full weight of the breakup in this game becomes clear and crushing after reading what they went through together in One Last Story.

I certainly liked this game, but I do want to really recommend the DLC, it gives the side characters their time to shine and it's really good. Also, the art style in both is adorable, I love it, and the music's great too.

I thought all of this was very well-done and moving. I am very sorry that you have to specifically tell people to not be mean about something this personal. It also seems that in particular people are very rude about your art, so I wanted to say that I found it striking and thematically appropriate.

Gorgeous art, great soundtrack, and beautiful writing (I am not one of those people who complains about VNs having too many words lol). Definitely check it out if you like the vibe!

For anyone having the error about the path being too long: if you press Skip to ignore those files, the extraction will work, and as far as I can tell the game still runs fine. Just wanted to let everyone know.

This was an excellent game, with incredibly unique art. Although I am American, some of my ancestors are from Palermo, so it was very fun to learn about its history and culture.

Like everyone else said, this game was cute and sweet, and I enjoyed the art and writing. I also happen to be from Rochester, NY, so it was a nice treat to see it show up in the wiki! But I liked the wiki in general, you did a great job with the tone and all that.

Nothing new to add but I agree that this was very cute

A short and sweet game. I've never been to an anime convention, so it was fun learning stuff about them too.

Good stuff, I loved all the dinosaur theming and the bad puns. I will admit to a little disappointment in the lack of dramatic voice clips for presenting evidence, but that’s ultimately a small thing.

Like "All Ashes and Illusions", this is dark, but in a thoughtful way, thinking about how to accept and make amends for one's misdeeds. Good stuff, as always. Also, I really do recommend playing this after Ashes; you should be able to figure its plot out fine but I do still think that it hits different having experienced Yuel's screw-ups first hand.

Excellent art and music; I particularly enjoyed the intro. Regarding the writing, it's definitely dark, but I think it's well-done and has interesting things to say, and if nothing else the ending is very memorable.

Short but sweet. Fun gameplay, nice music, and quality art, which I found rather impressive given the Game Boy's tiny screen size (160 x 144 pixels).

Sorry, writing reviews isn't my strong suit, but I enjoyed the game, and definitely appreciated the artwork (despite never having seen its inspirations myself).

Great stuff as per usual. I liked that you were able to incorporate all that interesting information about Skye naturally into a good story (such as by connecting people's feelings to it).

Excellent atmosphere, along with quality art, writing, and of course music. The ending was both sweet and surprising, serving as a clever second twist on an expected first one. So yeah, great stuff as always!

Definitely as gloomy as advertised, but it is very well done--notably the music, which is very different from the scores of your other games which I have played, but equally as good. 

Excellent writing as always, unique and appropriately stylized art, and the music, ah...inject that right into my veins! As a specific comment, I appreciate that, although this and "Fragile Feelings" had a similar relationship dynamic, you were able to make the characters distinct enough that at no point did it feel repetitive or formulaic. Not that one could ever even remotely accuse you of being formulaic, anyway. So yeah, good job!

Great OST, beautiful artwork, quality writing, and I absolutely adore the UI, it’s very unique and thoughtful. You also might like to know that I have set the spooning CG as my desktop background, in the hopes of giving me some motivation to try and overcome my Ann-like timidity and meet someone IRL.

I'm not much of a reviewer, but I did quite enjoy this game. I've never been huge on SoL, but I think what made this work for me was the characters. The best way to describe it is you wrote them like an ensemble TV show--the characters have enough of a wacky personality to be interesting, but it's not kept to so rigidly that it feels forced and fake.  Also, having gotten into VN's from Japanese ones, I'll be frank it's just nice to have the protagonist not be a jerk.