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This was fascinating! You picked great assets to use, and you work with them very efficiently. The elements that you created directly (I imagine?) do a lot, too: the 'halo' behind Haydee immediately intrigued me, for instance, and it was very cool to see the script offer a couple of lines to contextualise it, and then see it used later to tell us about Haydee's state of mind. (If mind is even the right word for talking about angels, &c &c.)

I wasn't quite sure about the phrase 'twain ropes' (definitely not 'twin ropes'?); I suspect 'a shit pay' would be better as either 'a shit salary', or 'a shit paycheck' (in NA spelling), or just 'shit pay'; and in one line, 'It's shell' probably ought to read 'Its shell'. But those are the most minor of nitpicks, and I am mentioning them because there weren't any larger issues. Overall I thought this read very well, with some lovely uses of language that sketched in an engaging, unsettling background to the story.

Narratively, it was also neat to read a VN in this game jam that gives us a third person's glimpse of a relationship rather than placing the point-of-view character's own romantic relationship(s) at the front of our attention. That aspect also makes this function powerfully as a self-contained short story, which is sensible scoping for a time-limited jam, as well…

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It really means a lot to hear you liked this, being such an amazing writer yourself! This game came about half because I had a concept and a character design in mind, and half because I've always been terrible at constructing a short, satisfying narrative (often going more for longer and expansive casts like in DDD) so this was a way for me to challenge myself and try to make something compact, with fewer sprites and assets. I'm very glad it worked for the most part!

And thank you for pointing out those errors, I always fail at catching all of them. And yes, I wanted to write it from the POV of Ferida because I thought it was necessary for the exposition to work well, and also because I find it funny when people are forcibly brought into other people's couple problems.

Thank you so much for playing and commenting!!