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I'll start this off by saying social media in general is - to be perfectly blunt - a shitfest. There's some decent stuff on there but it's buried beneath so much garbage it's rarely worth digging through. "Trigger Warning" is so damn overused that its true definition has been lost at this point. It originally was meant for people who suffer from PTSD, but like most things it got high jacked by disingenuous morons and now means "whatever I don't like/don't agree with." I'm so sick of it. Toss it all in the bin along with the assholes self-diagnosing+faking mental disorders "because uwu so quirky" and be done with it. The slut-shaming doesn't surprise me either, as hypocrisy is a running theme with these same people.

... That sounded really aggressive. Can you tell I am already so done with this decade along with the last one? Lol. Anyway ~

You probably don't remember me (I lurk and rarely ever post), but I've been a part of your patreon for many months before and after release. I mentioned before that I consider Degraman first and foremost part of the horror genre (horror visual novels aimed at women are so underserved! We need more), as it has all the markings of a horror VN, not all horror is gore based, and this VN was never going to be all sunshine and puppies. Can you possibly add the "horror" tag on the game page? Might help a bit towards people shrieking about "triggers" etc., so when they whine you can point out the "horror" tag. I doubt it would fix everything, but it would help towards the whiners looking foolish for still jumping into something they didn't like to begin with. Although... they did it anyway even though you listed trigger warnings... right on the store page... ugh. People are idiots.

Regarding the overall VN itself : I liked it well enough, but I wanted some more world building, particularly on the Altids. Sorry if I spelled that wrong; can't remember it(typing this on a phone as my computer died and I'm waiting for a package with my new power supply... the package is past delivery date... lol). If I had to level further critique however, I will say the VN could have done with another run by an editor, as some of the sentence structure, etc., is a bit awkward in English. As this is a product available for purchase a certain level of polish is expected, but since this is your first VN and English isn't your mother tongue, I can forgive it. I'd still buy another VN from you guys :p. more horror and Victor route plzplzplz

This disjointed rambling has gone on long enough. Finishing this off by saying I'm glad to hear you're feeling better and I hope things go well for you. Just remember: make the game you want to make first and foremost, as you've found out the hard way how mentally draining it is to try to accomodate the demands of (extremely vocal) whiners. It's just not worth your mental health, and they'd never be happy with the VN since it sounds like they were never your primary demographic to begin with - they just wanted to bitch at something. Not everything is going to appeal to everyone, nor should it. It really baffles me how many people can't (or don't want to) understand that....

Edit: Hours later and I realise I put "Vincent" instead of "Victor". Good job, brain!

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Oh, thank you for such a big, interesting and useful comment.

You're damn right about triggers. Sometimes we get the impression that some developers spend more effort on writing out these triggers than on the game itself. But they still lose, because there are people who do not want to play, but want to find a reason to show their discontent and aggression.

We remember your opinion about the lack of horror in vn for girls, because at some point it really supported us ❤

As for adding the tag, we have thought about it and we will definitely conduct an experiment.

And yes, you're right again. No triggers, no tags, and even more so the description of the game and screenshots - will not stop some people from indignation. After all, in their opinion, we should not have done anything other than joyful and enjoyable games AT ALL.

We are sorry that you didn't get the full measure of what you wanted from the game. But it was inevitable - in the first act we were not going to devote much time to lore and in particular to the altides. The idea of the first act were somewhat different. But perhaps other acts (in which there will be completely different messages) will please you more.

About the English translation. This is a really difficult question. Our text was reviewd and edited by native speaker, whose opinion and talents we greatly value and respect. Our proofreader has done a great job of adaptation our extremely difficult text into readable English (the initial translation to English was done by us). We cannot evaluate all the nuances of the result text ourselves, but we were guided by the good reviews about this editor. 

To bo honest, it is worth mentioning that there were some certain places where we severely restricted the freedom of our proofeditor, so as not to distort the original idea, for example, "ill-come" or "curiouser and curiouser"

But in any case, thank you, we will definitely take into account your opinion in order to build a more complete picture in a place where we ourselves cannot see.

Thank you again for writing so much and supporting us. We really got better and we became more confident in our actions and we want to make games to show our vision of beauty (even if it seems terrible to someone, ahahahah)

We hope to continue to read your wonderful comments from time to time :3