Hello! Thank you for playing the demo and leaving such a detailed and extensive review! It is much appreciated.
We're super happy to hear that you enjoyed the art and animations. The future scenes in the full version are even more animated and should be an overall step-up from the demo, so you can look forward to that! ^^
My apologies for the petrification scene! I was trying to convey the essence of this niche to the artist, but the wide-eyed, laughing version was declined for being too uncanny. 😿 I will push harder next time!
I will try to do something about the ESC key, as it obviously makes sense that it should open the menu. As of now, it is a technical limitation and I'll see what I can do about it!
Your praise of the story fills me with joy. Since we're making an eroge, I wasn't sure if anyone will be interested in the story at all, but so far the reactions were nothing but positive.
I will review the weirdness in the text formatting. I believe it doesn't happen as much in the later stages of the game and it was mostly caused by swapping the fonts halfway through the development.
The maps get more intricate and interesting basically right at the point where the demo ends. I hope you'll like them. I try to make them fancy. :)
The puzzle and the marble quest definitely need further improvement. Thank you for your suggestions and for reporting the bugs 🪲 !
Thank you once again for taking your time to go through pretty much everything our demo had to offer and giving us so much valuable feedback.
-Hiccup, writer and RPG Maker Dev.