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AngryCow, Jade, misabiko, Hippppo, Jackyyeah
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BGM is really good. I should look up how to develop the visual novel this way.
This was made with Twine, using the Sugarcube story format. If you aren't intending to make a traditional VN with character portraits over dialogue, it works quite well. In fact, when I was playing your game I was thinking Twine might have been a better engine for the story you were telling.
Aside from that, thanks for playing.
Really good VN. Poor Sanae.
Bit confusing with outcome sign posting, and some of the text options are vague as to if they are letting someone down gently, or if your reacting in the expected way.
I am quite the novice when it comes to VN decision trees. Thanks for playing through it.
Dude that word count, hahahah. This word count may deter some players. But at the end of the day, this novel is an intelligent and thoughtful piece of fan fiction. The word count was well used.
- The biggest (but only) flaw is that there are lots of typos and grammatical mistakes, so much that it was often hard to read and understand... It should go without saying but a novel with such protruding flaws is... Well you know.
- This issue wasn't big enough to fully get in the way of enjoying the storytelling though. The writing is just exceptionally good.
The characters are all so nuanced, and Reimu's inner thinking is so in-depth, one could almost feel her mind.
The story, the dialogues, the choices are all amazingly told. It's an excellent mix of entertaining and serious, in a way that feels very relatable and almost real.
My favourite part in this is certainly how the game plays off typical tropes. I have never ever read such a big subversion fest before. Like, "reverse dating sim" ijbol. And of course it's with girls who fit the typical archetypes. Like, what have we here... The klutzy secret admirer, the business partner with more than professional interest, the overly hardworking and collected housewife material, the childhood friend rizzlady, and your Bollywood mom who's arranged your marriage. Have we missed any one here?
-The title screen and backgrounds look really good. I like the way the backgrounds are used and shown. It's simple but it's good enough to set the mood.
- The music was much enjoyable during the reading, the number of arranges in there is impressive.
- Loving how the songs even fit the characters. Klutz Sana's theme is just perfect. But my favourite song is the True Ending's theme. The original is one of my favourite Reimu themes already!
All in all, a very good read full of insight and maturity, even if I didn't really think I'd get reading for 2 hours and a half. Kudos to everyone on the team.
What do you mean "Don't sweat this kind of small details". Do you mean that when two girls kiss-The biggest drawback to that word count was proper editing. My team caught dozens of my typos but I am sorry enough slipped through to hurt your experience. The postjam update I just added today at least catches the worst of them, hopefully. I tried pretty hard to make all of Reimu's choices still sound like Reimu, so it is reassuring to hear that came through.
I am quite grateful to the team for adding visuals and music to match and often exceed my words. Thanks for playing our game.
Oh right I forgot to report something:
Somehow the gray sentences from these specific top and bottom buttons are swapped.
That sure threw me for a loop for a solid 3 minutes.
Thanks for the report. That was one of the bad errors that slipped through on the jam release. I just fixed and should now link properly in the update.
This was great! I don't think I've seen Yukari being a sinister presence in Reimu's life before in a fanwork. A helicopter mom who can literally hover around you, how scary! In general this was very unique. My only criticism is with the music; the songs themselves are great, but I think their implementation wasn't the best. The music could be distracting, Marisa's in particular. I would have preferred just silence for some of the more serious moments. However, I can't praise the refreshingly mature writing enough. Next to Yukari, I also really liked the way Sakuya was characterized. The true ending made me choke up a bit, haha. Great job all around!!!
We implemented the music at pretty close to the deadline and I guess it shows. In an ideal world we would have liked more variations like the sad Sanae track to better match the mood of each scene. However, intentionally using silence is a great idea we did not consider.
Thanks for playing our game.
I only know how to reach Bad End 5 but it's still really good! Really can feel the growing frustration Reimu feels as she tries to push away everyone :(