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finally finished playing through this game, (including every possible ending,) and... Wow. like, damn, that was really really really really fucking good!!!! there's so much i want to say about it but that requires me to figure out from more than raw joyous feelings what i want to even say in the first place!

it took me about forty hours, going by the final stats and including all the time lost to stuff i undid and pursued from another save, etcetc.

...it was REALLY really REALLY worth those forty hours; by any means, it 100% was and i'm very glad for that. it was such a good time 😭!!!! i feel some melancholy now that i'm Done Everything and all, but like, now i have a four-game backlog by yall to go and devour at my own pace (in which i want to start from the oldest and work back to alouette from there, by the by (alouette take 2 counts as the fourth ;3)), and that's an AWESOME feeling 

i really loved this game. i think it's one of my top games this year, maybe even my personal pick for game of the year (out of what I've played this year). i admittedly havent played too much that came out this year, but alouette might be standing atop them all even still. god, it's so good.

alsooooo i noticed a lil oopsie and one-or-two typos to contribute as bug reports:

- when you transform whilst walking into a map-transition-tile, the transition doesn't actually trigger and you can walk off it freely. this doesn't really cause any problems, but it Does let you walk around in the void surrounding the CoGro interior map, cus theres no invisible wall stopping you (until you walk back into the arrow to leave). probably works on any similar interior maps too

- in the true ending, mercy forgets the second i in Evangelii during role call

- also in the true ending, it says 'all accept Lasca' which only Might be a typo, im not sure, ehehe. would probably be 'all except' if that wasn't an intentional choice

p.s. is there an official lyrics thingme for Under the Lighthouse? i can't make out certain words

Ah! It was the angel pulse thing—I guess I just sorta assumed they were broken due to the walkable-over-ness of them lol. Ty!

Helloo!! (Spoilers warning in here.) 

I've been absolutely obsessed with this game after finding it a week and a bit ago, it's absolutely wonderful and I've been shilling it to all of my friends as much as I can, buuuuut right now I think I've accidentally ran into a softlock!

According to what I've heard from friends, I can't complete Episode Z Part 2 and anything following from it due to the holes in the lower part of the Dark Forest being bugged. My only chance to dodge the bug would be reverting back to a different save that I took like 12 hours of playtime earlier, and I really don't want to have to resort to that.
The situation is as thus, in order of chronology: 

- Went to look around the bottom of the forest out of curiosity about the log, as I often do. Fell into the right of the two holes with Lasca teleporting me out and the conversation at the lookout etc. 

- Went back either the same day or later, unsure, fell into the same hole again and got Lascaported out. Immediately walked back, fell into the hole on the left this time, got Lascaported out. Immediately walked back but in Simone mode, noting the Alouette symbol but curious about what funny thing Simone might quip, only to just... walk right over the hole. The holes have been entirely uninteractable since, even on a date. 

- In addition, since I could, I walked over to the log that blocks off anywhere further from this area, and found it still there but glitched, with the transition arrow inaccessible but overlapping the log texture. It's also been this way since.

Not sure how to rectify this without figuring out how to edit my save to remove all my Episode Z progress and trying again, because I really don't want to have to redo a half-days' worth of content. Regardless though, that you SO fucking much for making this game, it's an absolute delight and I'm immensely immensely in love with it and everything about it. Sending infinite amounts of love and support to you and all you work! <3!

(p.s. i also ran into the episode P bug (that i think just got fixed) whilst on the petanqueless route, but dodged anything bad from that by reverting my save, doing the final battle for the first time, then doing episode P on the petanque-having route afterwards. if this wasnt the bug that just got fixed, i can share more details ^-^ <3)

I tried the WIP and it was very fun! Thank you for making it; I'm excited to see where it goes.

One question: Is there intended to be any 'failable' parts in the full game? In the demo there was nothing that would make you have to retry if failed; I think it could be fun if there was something like that—maybe the DDoS only brings the firewall down for a short time and you have to do what you can in that time before trying again when it comes up? I don't know; whatever fits your vision the best ^-^

Always love to see more Hifuu content out in the wild, so I wish you the best on continuing your work here!