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I absolutely loved this (it's my favorite jam game so far), amazing work! The atmosphere even just from the main menu was so good, the visuals and the texture you gave to all of the documents were so beautifully done. Great storytelling and premise, and some of those notes hit really hard - Echoes of the Prodigy and Liar were my personal favorites, and the spellings in Mercian's Letter just melted my heart. Some really interesting twists that made me gasp out loud too, hehe
I could gush about this for a hot minute lol but I do have a couple of notes! Like others have mentioned, I also ran into those 2 broken jumps in Death Records and The Great Houses. The other things are about the music - I love the tactile sound effects but I would have really enjoyed continuous music to go with them (though I imagine this might have been a time thing, I know we had trouble figuring out looping music in our game). On top of that, I think layering the Beethoven with ambience is clever, but the ambient track used was a little bit too tonal/musical in the bass, which would probably have been okay if it were in the same key, but I found the dissonance to be distracting while reading.
Overall, the game is visually stunning and the writing is really compelling, I'm looking forward to playing more of this in the future! :D

This was a nice chill game! I used the "cheats" to speed it up because I'm impatient lol but there was something so captivating about just watching them bop around and eat so I could age them, I just started planting food every time I could afford it because it felt like it paid off so well. I got worried my turtles were going to die after becoming Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles but I just ended up with some turtle geezers running around eating plants hehe :) Really cute game and great art style!

This was super cute! I loved the art style and the camera movement, and the music gave such a cute and cozy vibe. I liked the little dialogue sounds, too. It took me a bit to figure out what I was supposed to do in the 3rd scene, I had initially turned into one of the boxes right away, which prevented me from talking to the turtles. I had to restart (so the level select screen was very appreciated lol) and I poked around the whole area before I realized what I was supposed to do, though I do think the solution was clever. The overall vibes were so nice, it'd be perfect for a whole adventure through the forest :)