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Thanks, that's good to know! I see your point about the reaction, and perhaps some better foreshadowing would have helped sell her response better. Although I'm done with Limerence for the time being, this is all useful feedback to consider for when I write future stories

Until now I had no idea there was a game jam category for "Low Effort Beastgirl" games, which is so oddly specific that I'm kind of fascinated. But, as for the Access Denied itself:

I enjoyed this experience. It felt like it was setting up for something more, so I'm a little curious if there will be a sequel in the future. I also think the font used matches perfectly with the character designs and background art. 

Again, thanks for the well thought out impressions and criticisms! I'll definitely get to the typos, and I'm really grateful that you pointed those out. I'm a bit lazy though, so I might be a little slow to getting around to it, but it's definitely on my to-do list. 

As for everything else, you've given me lots of things to consider. And I appreciate all the time you took to explain your thoughts and observations so thoroughly

Thank you, I appreciate your thought out impressions and critiques! I think all your points are quite valid, and the feedback helps me look at things a bit more impartially. And overall, I'm happy to see that the experience seems to have been mostly a positive one given your score. Though by all means if you feel that this deserves a lower marking, I won't be offended. Honesty is the best policy and all that

My Last War is both a unique and ambitious visual novel. People looking for something different from the usual will definitely find that here, and I think it deserves more attention for that fact. While I believe the VN is worth checking out, it's entirely up to the reader whether they'll find it to their tastes or not. The feeling I got is that I think it's the type of game where you either love it or hate it. So you will just need to see for yourself. As for me, I just appreciate people experimenting with the medium. And also using the medium to tell more ambitious stories, such as ones that touch on history and philosophy which My Last War touches on quite a bit.

I appreciate the kind words and I'm glad you got something out of this story! I'm also happy that it's still reaching new people to this day

Hey, apologies for taking a couple days to get to your comment. 

I'm happy to hear that you got around to  it and enjoyed it! I'll be sure to check out your review on Lemmasoft and appreciate that you took the time to write one up!

It's really interesting you mention that. Especially the comparison to DMT. It's the way that VNs can kind of induce a pseudo-trance state into the reader that always fascinated me about the medium, and that kept me coming back to it. Ultimately it was my interest in VNs that drew me to people like Terence Mckenna and other psychonauts that took interest in digital media. This is an aspect of VNs that I think rarely gets discussed. Which is a shame, since I think it's actually kind of a core element of the medium.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts by the way!

Thank you very much, I really appreciate your comment!

I really appreciate the thoughtful and specific feedback. Elsewhere some others have voiced similar points of criticism, but yours is the only one that was both helpfully constructive and that was generously courteous. 

I've taken the criticism of the prose quite seriously as I've been working on my new project. Digital Seclusion was intentionally experimental in many regards, since there were things I wanted to test out first before committing them to a more serious project. Granted, the prose was not really one of the things I was experimenting with. But it's a point of weakness I'm focusing a lot more on now and hope to have improved by the time I release anything else.