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Cute little one-shot short story and a nice character design.  

Honestly, the artwork is incredible, but the gameplay itself did nothing for me.  

The pace of the action in no way feels paced for how your character moves.  Everything your character does has long wind ups or is active for far too long to deal with everything being thrown at you immediately.  You're thrown into the deep end and there's no sense of scaling up of difficulty at all.  The game itself isn't really teaching through anything but failure.  It doesn't need a tutorial or anything, but I really feel like enemy types should be introduced and spaced out better for the player to actually be able to meaningfully react to them when they start coming in mixed waves.

The struggle mechanic takes way too long to get free from, and with the sluggishness of the movement, even with i-frames it's still pretty easy to get chain grabbed when multiple enemies are on the screen.

There's good ideas here, but I really feel like some parts of the game need to be re-evaluated or else it just gets bogged down in constant grabs.  Glad others seem to have enjoyed it, but it's a bit too unbalanced and frustrating for me.  

Best of luck on development. 

Love the atmosphere created with the visuals and music choices.  Perfectly compliments the story's own oppressive and palpable mood. 

Not to get too spoiler-ey, but if you create a save file BEFORE getting killed by the balloon hold onto that and continue playing from a separate save file where you got killed by the balloon.  Just trust me.  Check that original file after 'the big thing that happens' later. 

Is the milkmaid that doesn't stop screaming at me until I close out the browser a bug or am I missing something that makes her stop?  

Also there's a typo on the world map.  The sign that reads "North: Grugbucket, South: Brigagigagigagig."  The directions are switched, you need to go SOUTH to get to Grugbucket, and NORTH for Brigagigagigagig.

You're actually not meant to fight the Nibble Mice (despite the fact that the game weirdly lets you.)  You have to craft traps out of wood and metal. I can't remember where I got the blueprint for them though.  

Where did you even find the hammer? 

What the hell did I actually just play?  Two screens in I was already pretty confused, but I kept going.  It felt like the part with the sheep and rock was random(?).  

Anyway, I quit because I couldn't find the hammer and the milkmaid just yells at me until I close the browser. 

Glad you had a good time! Thanks for playing ;D

I'll update the starting year every year, but the year selector is there just in case I end up late or forgetting LOL.  

All of this game's big updates are honestly thanks to Toad22484's chat. They play this game every day and do 200 rolls on their stream and people suggest lots of silly things to add to the game, so sometimes I update and just add them LOL.  Every new version is guaranteed to have something new, and it will likely be something random that you'll just come across while playing the game.  

I really wanted to maintain as much of the original game's feel as possible since it is definitely of that era.  

Thanks so much for playing!  Hoping you see the miracle sometime! 

Thank you so much for playing and the video!  Glad you enjoyed it! 

This was great xD  As a developer myself I related too much to it lol.  

Loved all the even move route work and image use. 

The combat system is just turbo turds xD  It's why I made a game that was mostly just events and dialogue and the combat is there to just sell the RPG trappings of the story and is all braindead and mostly auto-able.  

I also really don't like the face sprites compared to 2k. 

Another goddamn banger.  HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IIIIIIIIIT! 

Thanks so much for playing! 

Thank you so much for playing.  Happy I was able to create something in *your* genre to give back for how much I've enjoyed your works.

Girl can party down, I tell ya what.

You really knocked this out of the park.  Lovely marrying of mechanics and story.  Everything about this one feels so considered and thought out.  Really great job.

The red balls joke floored me.  Loved this.  It was so cute. 

Oh I loved the hell out of this one.  Nice range of emotion.  

Really awesome job.

Thanks for much for giving my game a spin!  I'm glad you had a good time with it! 

Thank you so much for playing! I'm happy you enjoyed it.

Really enjoyed this one. 

Very cute little one-shot story. A nice, thorough and clear vision.

Love them fat boys.  Had a great time with this entry! :)

Lesbians have been kissed! 

Love everything about how this one came together.  A really well done short-form fairy tale'esque story that looks and sounds amazing, and the writing is top-notch. 

Thank you so much for playing! I'm happy my penchant for random silliness gave you a little bit of joy! :)

Hah! Small world! xD 

This game is unhinged in all the best ways.  It feels perfectly in line with the Lily games while also having its own identity. Loved it to bits.

Glad you enjoyed! Thank you for playing! :)

Official Amazing Taste-Haver.

Up to 8 of them at a time, even.

Yep. Same issue here.  Images not loading on a lot of my game pages, dashboard, and profile  image not loading a lot of the time. 

Much appreciated, thanks for the quick response! Enjoyed the game a lot. Can't wait to play protoViolence soon!

I don't know whether it's related to the latest update or not, but when I complete the plushie puzzle and see the scene immediately afterward, the textbox remains on screen and persists  through all game states afterward including new puzzles and Game Over.  

Stirring and impactful!

A really great little short form RPG with some meaty fights and fun exploration and writing.  More of this type of energy! 

Had an absolute blast playing the demo.  So much so that I only played the Monday portion because I wanna have even more to dig into once the game's finished.  

This was seriously amazing.  The style is incredible, the writing is snappy as hell, the music fits so well.  The entire tone of what you're doing here is PERFECT.  I really can't wait to see how all this winds up.

Best of luck on the rest of development. I'll be eagerly waiting to play day one.