Just finished chapter one and I'm really impressed and enjoying it so far despite having no direct experience with marching band! The theme is super cute with all the music notes and the color palette is really bright without being overly girly.
All the artwork is topnotch, I'm especially impressed by how much depth the background scenes have. The characters are all really diverse while being super hot and/or cute. The background music is nice, it mainly blended in seamlessly but I particularly noticed it during Clark's bits. It matched him perfectly.
The story and dialogue runs very realistically. There were some bits I especially liked; "icky," "angryphone," "dangerous to go hungry." There would be bits where I would think/wonder about something that would be addressed in the next immediate scene which is such a great sign of carefully thought out sequences. I did notice there were minor instances where the spoken bits didn't match any of the typed dialogue text (which was jarring just because the majority does match word-for-word) but maybe that was a deliberate choice.
Some other random bits I loved; how Doug is built like a beast but got so sad when he thought he wasn't on the drumline, how beautiful Garth is and the fact he might possibly be wearing gold eye shadow which would be fabulous, Clark pulling a Hermione Granger and placing the sanctity of instruments over his own brain, Mr. Wiley giving himself credit for all the things, and I got weirdly sentimental over the old trophy detail.
This is already looking so incredibly polished. I can't wait to see the next step and help support this game!! :)