A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Aaah! A Date With Denial was so good!
It was my first proper introduction to Zecharias, and I loved it.
The atmosphere was so eerie and strange. The fact that the player character remembered almost nothing made the entire experience creepy enough, but then as they began to remember things got so tense. It honestly gave me goosebumps!
I enjoyed getting the ending where the player character found their friends the most, since it gave us quite a bit of backstory (and we got to see Zech absolutely furious, which was honestly quite scary.)
But I loved the implication of the first ending that the player character has probably been through this at least a couple of times that night and was forced to forget each time.
Of course, the absolute best part of whole experience was Zecharias himself. He has already cemented himself as one of my favorite yanderes just from playing this vn alone.
There's just something about him. Not only is his design utterly gorgeous (I'm a sucker for a man who shows cleavage, and his strange eyes and big, sharp teeth definitely added to the beauty of his design) but the whole idea of him is fascinating. I don't know what sort of being he is, but I love that he can manipulate us with singing. I also loved that, even though he got so angry with his "muse", he didn't actually hurt them. He just managed to scare the living daylights out of them instead.
Although, the fact that he had killed and... I assume eaten the player character's friends was quite unsettling. It wasn't particularly surprising, but definitely unsettling.
I really liked the setting, too. I loved the fact that the "restaurant" was actually a room inside of an impossibly large house with even more strange rooms that I assume Zech can add and change at will.
I also loved the touch that he didn't remember what fish looked like, so they just weren't a part of the setting.
It just made the setting so creepy, and I love it! (As an aside... I do hope that the food he feeds the player character is real in some capacity? Since... humans do need food to survive.)
And the choice in music for the different moods and scenes was very well utilized!
You did an amazing job with A Date With Denial. It felt very complete for a 72 hour game jam game, and now I'm completely hooked on Zech.
Thank you for working hard and for making such an interesting story. }
I'm very much looking forward to trying the other two visual novels you're working on too!
