Hello and welcome to my Ultra Long Running Commentary Comment, where I put down all my thoughts and reactions as I actively play for your hopeful entertain. (Spoiler Warning for fellow players.)
Ooooh the opening screen. Love the atmosphere, both from the music and the art. Strong menhera vibes right out the gate with the IV drip, hell yes. I didn't honestly expect the visual menhera aesthetics to be strong in the cyborg game, and thought the menhera would mostly be felt in the narrative themes and writing, so this is a nice surprise. (Also, I like how the start button is "Enter Memory." I love when menu options are creative.)
I'm sorry for thinking the opening dream reminds me of Maria's last words to Shadow the Hedgehog... 😔
The art. Is so good. I love this art style. Aughh. Art good. Essie's hair flowing over the pillow looks so nice.
I loooove the formatting of the text on the first Lie. The red wiggling, scrolling line of anxious thoughts over the command....such good use of atmosphere, and I have no idea how you coded it. Extremely cool.
You know those old dolls that'd have a pull ring on a string, and if you tugged it the doll would say phrases? Well Sol looks like she has two of those and I want to yank them so so bad.
....so I finished, and I immediately, no hesitation hit 'Enter Memory' again. I feel this conviction that if I play a second time there will be New Game + content, and more game, and things will continue, and I can make Sol proud and do my exercises and bust outta this joint.
I feel like this is not actually what is happening, though, so now I'm just really hoping for a part 2. There's so much intrigue here, the very beginnings of a story. I feel very much invested. Rattling the bars of my cage. Aaaaaaaaaaugh. Good game.