As someone who was already familiar with the payment processor and itch situation, I wasn't sure what to think of this game at first. It felt all a bit too heavyhanded as a satire, evoking some weaker parodies of things i'd read from probably several ago. But... this story was so earnest and committed to the bit that I really came around on it, especially seeing the YA-novel like resistance into budding romance. Plus, the noir detective intro was a great hook.
The most striking thing to me about this setting was the distortion and extension of what ages counted as 'childhood'. it's really the tone these bans are giving, huh? state itself babying and drawing foolish lines on morality and purity, determining us to be too stupid to see anything in fiction without trying to imitate it in reality.
That segment at the end was a pleasant surprise. It... was honestly what made me interested in writing out a comment for this game. Thanks for including that, if it's appropriate to say. I've been thinking about how directly personal an author should be in their work, and similarly, a split between writing endings that would suit the narrative versus the one that I'd want to see. This gave me another opinion on those things.