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It wasn't a funny joke. Jokes can be criticized too, you know.

oh yee, ye i do remember deleting it cuz my wordings a bit off. my bad. i don't recall my critique of your artstyle being rude, but then again, nobody can accurately tell tone from text ^^

why did you delete my comment?

so you just click words n watch a pink bar fill up? don't see the point tbh

th1z 3az dope, l1ke ddlc b8t 1nterezt1ng n act8ally done by zomeone 3ho kno3z the1r zh1t. 1'm expect1ng dope th1ngz from yo8

what's the intro music? it's really interesting, n reminds me of a lot of old free improvisation

DOWNLOADING THIS FOR THE SOUNDTRACK MAINLY BECAUSE WHEN YOU SUBCONSCIOUSLYREFER 2 THE SOUNDTRACK AS A STANDALONE ALT-POP ALBUM I IMMEDIATELY GET INTERESTED

thanx mane ^_^ don't know why yu tagged it as such in the first place

ohhhhhh ight that's fair, ye i guess that could be why, but again tho non-erotic games with suggestive character designs like this have been published here before n nobody batted an eye. it's a strange situation 2 be in

2 my knowledge nsfw gamez are allowed by itch.io guidelinez zo it couldn't be that imo

yes, there are suggestive character designs, but a lot of triple a game dev companies utilize them subconsciously. suggestive character designs don't mean that a game is a erotic/pornographic one. 

don't take this as basement dweller/incel/redpill/alt-right rhetoric, i have no interest in trying 2 save games from healthy explorations of identity n sexuality, but it is baffling to me how you can label this an erotic game when the only thing thats erotic about it, imo, is the character designs. 

imo it's like calling an rpg game an action game just because it has gunfighting. while, yes, gunfighting is a feature in a lot of action titles, it's not an inherent quality in the action genre, and it doesn't mean that the rpg in question is an action title. 

am i bugging? maybe i'm missing something or wasting my time here, but if you label this an erotic game, when the only thing erotic about it is the character designs, and you yourself don't see it as a pornographic/erotic game, then why are you labelling it that? 

ye dw. btw i don't think yu hate lesbians or lgbt people in gen. i just think that when writing lgbt people that just happen to be bad people, we shouldn't be quick to use stereotypes n stuf. 

imo the writing on this is too simplistic n lacking depth for me to be invested. i get yu want to avoid purple prose, but this dialogue reads like one ov those stock image myon books yu read in middle school

the lesbophobia isn't helping, either. (theres a part that stereotypes lesbians as man-haters. i get that ozaki studios aren't/isn't a lesbophobe, n that it was probably juz bad wording n characterization but we gotta watch out for bigotry in game developers namsayin?)

ye, no problem mane. i also wanna congratulate yu on finding yourself n stuf, as a transfem artist myself :3 finding out that i wasn't a man was probably one of the things that saved my life

no fucking way dude. no fucking way you're chriddof lmao. (i'm transfem myself, so this is more in surprise than like negativity)

g you're one of my childhood heroes when it comes to weird shit. i used to watch your vids as a kid thinking that no actual human could make this. salute to yu mane

this is an outsider game, the same way that henry darger is outsider art.

oh obviously good

what does liking the chairman ov the board n melodramas have to do with the whole story? why did yu put it in the description? is it an overarching theme or something? is it like subconscious?

you should fix that "The game is short, it has 5 endings." alignment. its aligned kinda weirdly

title sounds like some shit supreme clientele era ghostface killah would come up with

ong bro. these kind of calarts game devs are lame as fuck. sorry people are hating on you

looks like someone hasn't read tender frog house

YOUR PRAYERS ARE BEGINNING TO BE ANSWERED. I'M DOING A SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION FOR ADASTRA

this happened to my best friend nick mullen

hi nick mullen, i'm a huge fan of your work dude it means a lot that you're here

>ai art is based upon theft

most of it is but not all of it. that sounds like an anti-sampling argument tbh. 

you should reject copyright n intellectual property not reinforce it.

anyway ye not really compelling designs for billboards. 

this is the greatest pro-life ad ever conceived. 

in all seriousness though, this was an interesting and dark interpretation of childbirth that didn't feel edgelordy. the gut-wrenching descriptions of a baby trapped in their mothers body was fucked, and that made it even better.

8/10

no worries ^^ i mean i guess yu could make a new version with english puns, but that would take a lot of work probablyy

1. i'm not saying yo have to spend fucking days laboring over a single game. i'm not saaying that you have to be jon brion. i'm just saying: you should make the soundtrack not just the same theme repeated over and over again.

2. reviews shouldn't be only positive. i think that game developers should learn how to take constructive/negative critique, because it can help them grow as creatives. as long as they're civil, it's good critique.

a game with a trolly premise taken seriously, with a plot where nothing but the act of catching fireflies and then going home happens.

like. nothing happened. i was half-expecting dr doofenshmirtz to come along and fuck shit up, but i've seen both this and the fanfic that it was based off of: it's just uneventful. like that's not inherently bad, i like a lot of uneventful games, The Longing being an example of one. however, this was just... boring. It reminded me of Gerry, a movie where two dudes lost in a desert wander aimlessly for most of the time. 

Catching Fireflies is the Gerry of visual novels.

plus like, i was expecting this game to be stealh satire, like what Nyan Neko Sugar Girls was, but... nah. this was serious. The artstyle, the dialogue adapted into fangame form, etc... No indication of satire was found. The soundtrack was oddly repetitive as well. like i can understand having motifs/lietmotifs, in-fact i'm a huge proponent of that, but it shouldn't be the same theme played in different forms.

no disrespect to the developer by the way, i'm sure they put a lot of effort into it, and i respect that. it's just.. wow.

4/10

Yeah, I don't know why the developer added that 4th wall break in admittedly. Though it WAS interesting.

-Cro

can yu make an english version of this in the future?