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Hi! You have to click the "more information" button (right next to "cancel" or whatever equivalent) and then it will give you the "run anyway" button :) 

This game is SO incredibly amazing it became one of my faves instantly

I just like having my little steam library get bigger! If they don't release on there i'll still purchase here :)

Thank you for hearing out my criticism.

However, I hope you understand where I'm coming from. The lesbian community is under heavy criticism for being "biphobic" pretty much every day, and it gets worse when we're supposed to be celebrated - like during pride, although I know it celebrates bisexuals as well (any queer identity, in fact). But we're always the ones under fire. If we speak there's something wrong with what was said, and if we don't words are still put in our mouths.

Everyday lesbian creators cannot speak on the lesbian experience without it being biphobic in one way or another. Majority of lesbians denied their identity their entire lives because patriarchy and comphet runs so deep in us, much deeper than in anyone else. Vast majority of us have identified as bisexuals. Making a game about a woman who plays in lesbian women's faces and calling her a victim of biphobia is disingenuous and DOES paint us in a bad light. I have read comments on here literally saying they can experience the biphobia despite never actually going through it - what does it even mean ? You can picture how terrible lesbians treat bisexuals when bisexuals make up for 3/4 of the sapphic community ? And once again, are lesbians so wrong for being mad and upset for making someone so extremely wealthy she could retire and live more comfortably than most on the basis that she is like them and understands their unique struggle and experience when all of it was a lie ? I'm aware this discourse exists IRL and has since forever. But because lesbian-baiting is a real thing and the concept in itself is lesbophobic. It's not that women aren't allowed to be bisexuals, it's that after making their entire brand loving women and women only, them dating a man understandably feels like betrayal. It is not about bisexuals being less than lesbians, it is about lesbians being a hook for easy popularity and money.

A gay man can be gay, a bisexual can be bisexual, but a lesbian's sexuality is always "fluid" on the risk of being called biphobic. Have you ever looked at this discourse in the POV of lesbian women ? Why they're so angry and so desperate for someone who understands them ? If you do, the hurt this game causes will make much more sense to you.

Ayla's ex reminds me heavily of the "les4les" discourse that is never ending, it feels like a callout to lesbian women who wish to only date other lesbians (and are called biphobic for it every single second of the day). Ayla is not a victim to the decisions she made as a grown woman, even if she was heavily influenced into making them. 

Regarding Cheri, as someone said in here, she heavily feels like a woman written by a man (even if I know you're a female solo dev). Her mannerisms are very child-like. I'm aware she's younger than Ayla but no 20+ year old woman acts that way. Having the only non biphobic lesbian being a huge fan of Ayla who drinks her words like water and who acts like a child is not pleasant to experience either. 

I'm aware what the lesbian tag includes, I browse it every other day. It does not change my mind. I'm unaware if any other lesbian woman such as myself as played this game but after showing it to my lesbian friends all of them were as angry as I am - though i'm also aware we often hang out with like-minded people. I'm not saying my or my friends' feelings dictate what EVERY lesbian would feel playing this, but it is heavily possible most of them would not enjoy the experience. 

Thank you for taking this seriously.

Hello! Any plans to release this on  steam like you did your other games ? I'd love to purchase this there. Thank you and have a lovely day

I genuinely cannot believe I made an itch account just to state what i thought was obvious, but either this game deletes the negative comments (im not sure if it's possible on itch) or this game perfectly found its own absolute HORRENDOUS community full of lesbophobes.

This game tries so hard to focus itself in biphobia it fails to see how disgustingly lesbophobic it is. I'm in absolute awe nobody called this out.

Maybe the hate Ayla received has nothing to do with biphobia, but with the fact that she GENUINELY played the lesbian community (which are the ones who gave her her wealth and fame) ? What happens when a community already underrepresented, who goes through its OWN unique struggle, deeply connects with the single RARE "lesbian" singer and turns out said singer lied ? Said in interviews she was lesbian only because it fooled you more and gave you more reason to encourage her and make her continuously more famous and more wealthy ? When you know that lie was spouted so you could be a FOOL for someone else's success who never truly understood you ? Oh but lesbians are SOOOOO terrible right ? We're SO terrible for wanting a LESBIAN artist out of the GAZILLION bisexuals that are already out there, and for being angry when someone fools us for easy fame. It's SO "biphobic" of us to get angry when WE are the ones getting played. Poor Ayla!

Funnier yet, who cares if this game encourages already existing lesbophobic rhetorics? Who cares if it teaches bisexuals who have never, not once, interacted with a lesbian in real life that they're ALL out to get you because bisexual women are SOOOO disgusting in our eyes for dating men (when vast majority of us have as well)? Who cares about any of that right. Who cares if those sincerely disgusting lesbophobic games isolate us more than ever, because everyone thinks we're SO terrible, if in the end even our own isolation as one of the smallest communities in the LGBTQ+ means we can still be called biphobic for wanting to be with someone who understands our unique, lesbian struggle? 

I have played my fair share of visual novels and NONE have had me angrier than this has. You people think you're so clever for making games about your struggles when in reality all you're doing is pushing us under the bus and making us seem like absolute monsters for wanting ONE person in the entire world to understand what it feels like to be like us. I'm not even expecting this comment to be perceived like a legitimate critic of the topics this game tries to tackle. I'm deadass used to it. This account having been made specifically so I can comment here probably will make you people I'm ragebaiting or trolling but I'm not. I'm a lesbian tired of scrolling through itch every day under the lesbian tag looking for games about us only to come accross some bullshit implying we're fucking monsters for wanting to have one person in the whole wide world to be proudly lesbian. If lesbians mean likterally ANYTHING to you, devs, you'll maybe try and take this seriously. Or maybe you won't. I dont care. Just delete the lesbian tag from this garbage and free my sisters from finding this bs and feeling as angry as i am