It's short and sweet and fun, could've been solid 3/5. But it's one of those games that makes you go “huh, this was done better somewhere else...”
The character designs are immeasurably cute. The “cutesy&funny gay Halloween game” thing was better done in the game Halloween House Party by gothcosmos, though, a game which I heavily recommend. Not that both can't coexist, of course.
I liked most of the endings and characters. Though the Baezel ending is a bit awkward and feels more like the beginning of a long-lasting friendship than the start of a romance, mostly because Baezel looks like a baby, haha.
The lecture Marzipan gives to Chirval about how being fandom obsessed is totally normal and desirable feels a bit… I don’t know… out of place and preachy? I mean, some people take fandom to an extreme and foster toxic behaviour; they also neglect meaningful human interaction and use fandom as an unhealthy coping mechanism. So, being all “leave him with his anime bodypillow collection, he is happy that way” lands like even more of a thud because to get this scene you have to get the Baezel ending in which it’s pretty obvious Baezel isn’t all right with solitude and actually wants friends and maybe even romance and isn’t so happy being alone with his toys. It was as if the game developer was pulling me aside for A Very Special Episode. Just an observation.
I enjoyed the Olog ending, but its sort of applicability to sex work? It was cool that there was no shame in it or anything of that sort for Marzipan, but the comparison between hiring a sex worker and selling your soul to the netherworld is... huh.
Periwinkle the bisexual gender non-conforming fashionista was so cute, by the way!
Usually, I have a favourite ending that becomes the “official” one for me, but I love the Chirval, Poffin, Jam, Vinegar, Periwinkle, and Strudel endings equally.