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Hey! I am currently playing the game for the first time and figured I should leave a comment - as a dyslexic person the in game font is almost impossible to easily read as the o and a are nearly identical. It might be cool to add a feature to choose a dyslexia safe accessibility feature to change the font! :) 

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IM SO SORYMY LIEGE I GOT CAUGHT UP W MEMORIAL DAY WEEKENDDD

SPOILERS GALORE AHEAD

To start, returning to the game is easy, and i credit that mostly to the immersive writing style and comfortable music! I skipped to get back to where I was in the game yet it still felt seamless and I didn't feel like I was lost! The interaction w my character falling made me so shy the first time around that I had to shut off the game and work for four days hard labor and barbequing to recover. I knew from seeing the flag in one of the download milestone illustrations that Ramon was demisexual, and I appreciated it! Then seeing it discussed in the game with so much care as someone on the demi spectrum myself was so REFRESHING!!!! Because the conversation flowed so naturally without feeling forced into the scene!! I especially enjoyed being able to reply in kind!! It felt so warm? If that makes sense? And while it shows so well in so many other scenes I feel I have to call attention to just how well the player's anxiety is portrayed. Not once is the player just described to be anxious as theyre going through that emotion and left at that, the anxious thought patterns are shown with the trust the player has reading comprehension. To then be able to actually lean on Ramon for support metaphorically or physically shows so much depth to their relationship and just how dependable and sturdy he is despite all he has gone through. The addition of Kiraki is so lovely, and I am a sucker for a half orc so i would have loved to see their face so I could draw them!! The friendship between them and Ramon did feel truly like old friends who want the best for one another - even if one is having trouble accepting it. I could kiss that strict orc rn. Oh to be the customer that gets scolded... IT SHOULDA BEEN MEEE!!!! And then the tumeric tea. The sudden sprite change where all of a sudden Ramon is shirtless. Might as well have come into my house and shot me. I had to close the game again. And return when ready. I was never ready but a gal can pretend!!!
The conversation about Alexander broke my heart and put it back together again. You truly can feel the fondness, the affection that even death cannot erase, and the pain of losing someone thus having no place to put that love. I got misty eyed but im so tough i didnt cry (any more than just a little). You can feel the love. Even as the player begs for the right choice to be made you can feel the deep care. its astounding. Then the scene with atlas.. I will not get into it, but as a middle child with two very successful looked after siblings it struck a cord with me in a way I havent ever really encountered in fiction and especially not in all my years playing VNs. Atlus is a bitch and a diva and i wanna put him in a microwave. THEN TO HAVE RAMON COM EIN. AND DO ALL THAT, DIVAS. DEVIOUS DIVAS I WASNT READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "you got this old heart beating again" ill kill you to death with a steel chair im AAAAAAAAA ill kill you fictional man i mean it (/pos) the grave, the flower, the cg. him kissing the flower. i think this is going to kill me. And in that cg i realized the flowers on his shoulders were edeilwiess and the player finding the same safety from him that they did that flower. the symbolism. oh my god. oh my god i stewed for hours and thinking about it all again i need to chew ice and watch paint dry. And when he called me cute. When i tell you i just sat there. That whole scene. The whole thing. Heart in my throat clutching my pearls so shy I feared something was wrong w me. Insanity. Now. I will admit. I fucked that old man. Nasty style. It was well written. Embarrassingly well written bc I have saved like four times during the scene just to see it again because not once have I experienced a payoff in a game where a sex scene has felt so intimate. Its embarrassing for me. Lord. The scene after being sent off leaves me feeling so hopeful I dont know I just truly enjoyed this game and feel this will be one I return to time and time again. 

update: i have to pause playing bc im shy what the hell. will leave a full review once i get my shit together

I cannot understate how excited I am to play the complete version of this!! I loved the previous jam version so much that I have been endlessly yapping about it to my buddies that are so tired of my crippling old man addiction. But seriously the writing is phenomenal!! The prose ease you into the world and help immerse even someone like me who typically stays away from royal fantasy into the roll of a #prettyprincess. The relationship between Ramon and the player progresses so naturally hitting that sweet spot between a slowburn and a wildfire! Not even to mention how tasty the art is!! So excited!!

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While that would be nice, in a game like this it might be hard to implement. I could see some customization but I don't imagine there would be very many options. Especially since most dating sims / otome games don't usually have any character customization at all outside of changing the character's name.