Thanks so much for your feedback! And yes, Tailor Tales was conceived back in 2009, which had an overworld style concept similar to Harvest Moon. I eventually decided to turn it into a visual novel as this way I could focus on a more cohesive and romantic story.
I don't know if this is a bug or not, but your character seems to keep the same look you picked out for her from the start of the game, even though you can change her look mid-game.You can change the MC's colours by going into the settings, selecting Profile and clicking "Change CG colours". Changing your character in Outfit only affects the avatar you see in the main menu, it does not influence the CGs or story, only the above option changes it :)
And I absolutely LOVE you for giving a dark light option for the text background.
More games should have this in my opinion! I know people are very divided on how they like to read (black on white, or white on black etc.), so I wanted to give people the option that they can change anytime they like. You can also change the text size for those that are visually impaired.
I can't help but notice how much you've improved between the routes, probably because I played all three without pause.
Haha, you're not wrong that each route gets improved. Neil was the 1st route and also very experimental. It was after Neil was completed, that I got the hang of a good length for each chapter, and how the story should flow. Caine got even more polished and he even has longer chapters. James, the current route in development that isn't available for free right now, has the longest chapters out of them all (if you've reached chapter 14, the halfway point of his route, it is the same length as Neil's entire route). Art will always improve as well - I hope to entertain you with Gray's route as well!
One last question. When you release this as a full, complete game, would we get the tailor tales plus features as well or is that strictly for your patreon subs?
I would like to release Plus as DLC - however this would only be available on Steam (itch.io just doesn't have any options for DLC), and I still don't know when I'll release it because there's a few mechanics I haven't completely finished (for example, you can take guys out on a date, and at the end you enter a minigame where you can physically touch them). Only Neil is available to 'date' so far and only two locations, I don't want to release the Plus version when it's still incomplete in my opinion. But I'll always announce it when I'm ready!