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We'll be updating the sprites in future updates. It was done like this for monetary reasons since sprites are expensive. Sorry to hear you don't like the antagonist's writing. We'll try to improve it in future updates. Silverstone's conception was mostly inspired by Higurashi, Silent Hill, and Uzumaki. I didn't read Echo until a while later. We knew we'd still get Echo comparisons, though, so we've accepted that.

On the contrary because I cannot believe how unfathomably venomous this comment is in certain sentences, please do refer to the fact that this VN literally released a day ago and will be receiving updates that may medicate your "criticisms" (needlessly toxic wording!) in the future.

Give it the time to receive music and more sprites. Give it the time to grow past a "Not-Echo VN." Give it the time to find its footing and rewrite if needed.

Build One VNs are demos. This comment is like playing Minecraft on May 18th, 2009, and complaining there's nothing to do.

I partly agree with your criticisms but I think they way you expressed them was not very helpful. If you want the developer to improve their work a less hostile tone would be more effective.

Also, I think the comparisons to Echo are unfair given that the similarities are hardly unique or original to Echo. Anyone who's read Stephen King's It knows that the idea of 'a group of friends reuniting in their childhood town where an ancient horror lurks' has been around for decades. In fact, at this stage I'd argue the premise of Echo is more similar to It than Silverstone's is to Echo given the antagonists of Echo and It are both incomprehensible, alien entities feeding on the negative emotions of their town's residents while the Stranger is a more person-like entity with a seemingly specific agenda. Yet no one calls Echo 'It-but-with-furries'. I see no reason why Echo should have a monopoly on this idea in the horror FVN space. The important thing is that the VN distinguishes itself enough from earlier works and I think Silverstone appears to be doing that.