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One of the best visual novels out there and I recommend it to everyone! Eternum does a wonderful job at pacing the story, which is incredibly intriguing. The characters and dialog are well written and likeable. Not to mention the combination of renders, animation and audio are top notch.

The only real 'complaint' (if you can call it that) is regarding the release cycle. I understand wanting to end releases on cliffhangers or ensure releases contain meaningful story progression and character development, but waiting 6 to 9 months between releases can be painful.

Sometimes I wonder if having much smaller releases every 3 to 4 months would be better.  Often times I end up having to replay the story before every release to re-familiarize myself with the plot. Again, not really a complaint, more than likely just an observation that stems from my impatience for such a wonderful visual novel.

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There was a poll a few years back asking Patreon subs if they wanted meatier content with longer dev time or shorter content with shorter dev time. The former won, so that's that.

Plus Cari mentioned around 0.6 that he wanted to pace his dev time to a more manageable sched so as to prevent burnout, hence the added dev time to an already lengthy sched. While that may sound unfortunate for those waiting for the updates, IMO if it eventually leads to him seeing the game to completion instead of noping out and becoming another abandoned game then I'm all for it.

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That makes sense and thank you for the detailed response.  There are definitely two different release cycle preferences hence why I didn't really call it a 'complaint', per se. And if the longer/ meatier releases were voted on then all is fair and I'm fine with it.

Also, I am glad he is taking into account burnout and making time for himself, of that, we can agree on.