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Finally doing Abeni's route! The bit about the windows being new?? The  bell?? THE DOOR?! SUSPICIOUS

"You could probably take a bell, if called to." asfjkgjdifsl

Love the little bit about how Abeni and the PC are managing hair care. And the sandwich contest, that was cute!! I adore their banter, really feels like they've gotten to know each other.

Me, staring at Kaius: I don't trust youu

(Curious as to whether in each route, the other two main characters are still sequestered with their own people)

best part about summer with gardens  <3

asdkcifjlx i also meant to ask what ur growing!!

Gardens are THE BEST!! Hi Leyla!!!! gonna come back to tumblr shortly as well lol

2 years I think?? but AAHH CONGRATS that's awesome!!! you've achieved the dream

Not bad!! went back to school, graduated, now trying to find a job lol. HOW ARE YOU?!!!!

Playing Manor Hill again is like coming home. Gnarl is so charming of course (and infuriating) and I CANNOT believe the PC is literally in the middle of confessing when the gang interrupts!! I adore Andre and Helene and their nicknames. Cackling at the PC acknowledging they need to get Gnarl in a room with only one exit to reliably talk and "That just kind of makes it sound like you're one tragic accident away from unleashing yourself on the countryside."

im fkcn CACKLING at the personality description “of irritable temper, characterized by bluntness, stoicism, impatience, rudeness, and general intensity.”

looove all 3 exchanges with Siruud via text and “walk in with confidence. Confidently.” and MC almost completely stop paying attention to Bright in favour of their own thoughts. 

“like you have a finisher move (you don't; you'd have a lot more friends if you did, you think).” LOVE IT

the details during fight are sooo good !! “like cleaning chemicals and coolant” “shred like fucking pull apart bread compared to a hardwood desk.”

“Your heart is pounding so hard that your chest feels like a door that's being opened and closed in wide, slamming gestures.”

ooohh the suspense, this is wonderful and a little terrifying because Bright??! what the hell?!?

maybe this is just my laptop's problem but is the next button missing here? (running on mac and safari)

the new version runs very well !! i could've sworn i'd played the grocery shopping chapter and commented but i can't find it on the old site so

love the range of siruud's aliases

looove how snarky, and flirtatious, the banter gets, like mc commenting on eden/siruud's clothing and "so we're in this mess because you wanted to be petty" as well as the exposition "the most sacred rule of non-engagement, holiest in the bulk supermarket"

the thought of eden/siruud standing in the supermarket entrance profoundly confused is hilarious

oohh the suspense of adrien bright and what both tahira and siruud are holding back good good GOOD 

i found a small(?) repetition and hopefully screenshots are a good way to relay this

fiiinally playing Valeri’s third chapter

love the little “evidently bulletproof glass” detail, i laughed

the sense of frustration is so well built up throughout

ooohh i love Noor’s snark, “guard your face better in the future” they say with half of their face literally physically guarded

“a date and a job interview all at once” OOOF

lovely touch about how most of the members have something colourful about their looks

aahh i love Ruth and Ai and Max !! and everyone very clearly enjoying watching mc and Valerian dance around each other

as always, loooving all the choices you give, especially with what happens after Valerian storms out and the implication that he was waiting in their room and went looking when they didn't show up? i love this earnest man

very very excited to find out about his surprise and WORRIED about this Naomi

This intro is a delight!!! Loved all the options w regards to Zed’s missing family member.

The mentions of other people looking strange and that Zed is somehow different were deliciously eerie.

I looove the soft, so to speak, post-apoc setting, like plants that will guard if respectfully asked (unless I read that wrong?).

Finally got around to playing Gnarl's route and I'm LIVING FOR IT. I love the comfortably flirty atmosphere and oh? Gnarl's been away and out of contact for three months? And is evasive about it? Love this mystery! And I love the balance between being mad at Gnarl and worried about them.

"Jerk," you snap, laying perfectly still to let your body just absorb the humiliation.  Fave line

The over-broccoli confrontation was sooo suspenseful and convincing that I felt jittery and still do tbh.

"What a thing to say to someone who knows every spot that you're ticklish." Love how this shows they've definitely knowing each other for years.

At first I thought the player could only lose the card game, but then I played through again bc I'd forgotten to save and accidentally won. I loove the various ways the game, and every other conversation, can turn out and all the options you give. 

Same goes for Valerian's route, so many choices! The chase down the hall was fun and adorable, Valerian is definitely Too Smooth. "You're sitting on him, and...now what." I'm dyING.

And the description of his eyes is beautiful!

Everything feels so well-developed and I'm so damn excited to see where this goes!

I can't express completely how much I love this game, and Abeni, Gnarl, and Valerian, but I'll try. Everything's so suspenseful, especially the trek to the front doors, and all three of them are so smooth I'm grinning the whole time.  Just played Valerian's prologue again and I loove all the witty comebacks,  my cheeks hurt from smiling