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Theme: The theme seems to be some mix of expanding the range of the radio & expanding the mindset, I presume?

Story: Hmm. Some nice prose overall. I think you had a good sense for the story you wanted to tell, and the beats rang true to it.

The thing where I waffled about on was Roy failing to have any performative niceness, even in public. In private sure, he's the asshole. Holden's already some sort of "Battered" so he can't quite defend himself, but in public I would have thought there'd be the pretense of being caring, to keep up the masquerade. 

It was also nice that you had the explanation of why Holden even fell into him, because Abbey denoted that he's been shitty all along.

I did squee at the flash forward ending, but it's also very 'perfect' that they married each other. I almost think it would have been nicer if they weren't dating but were best friends. It kinda feeds into the like, "you needed to rebound into someone good" sort of tropey archetype, if that makes sense? "The one person you meet after getting away from your shitty ex is perfect". So much overlapping interests.

Presentation: There were some artifacts in the English version (abbey "interjecting" into roy and holden's text convo, words too large for one of the menus, the untranslated french notes that I wasn't sure what they represented, the silent bits (I don't know if they had to be music, but I think some sort of ambient noise would have been nice).  I appreciated the custom gui efforts though, and the sprites were nice.

Creativity: While I liked your approach to the relationships, and the implementation of the open romance tracking, it also did feel like these were narrative grounds I've tread, especially in this space.


Overall thoughts:  I keep finagling with the points for your ranking, and I think that's a reflection of me having difficulty because you did so well and I'm perhaps nitpicking somethings... which means I should round up, tbh. Good job!

Thanks a lot for your review ! These are always detailed and well written, it's appreciated ! We will have to fix the artifacts 👍 I messed up in some part of TUNING OUT but we have to wait july