What to say? Well, let me start off by saying I really enjoyed this story and I'm kinda like Astrid and don't like riddles since I'm kinda slow to connect dots, nonetheless, I was able to solve them fairly easily and used my brain for the first time since I was born.
The storyline and the way you wrote the characters had me engaged the entire time. You truly gave life or death to the characters. The solo route had me in tears, I hadn't even realized I was crying when she got reunited with her bf. I kinda expected us to have a preview of all the couples after they make it in the end. Each route had me itching to know what was going to happen next.
I do have some questions if you don't mind.
Is there gonna be a route for the guide? If so, I wonder how it's gonna play out considering he might be old or maybe not even a being who can display the affections Astrid would want.
Will you ever show an after-ending? I kinda wonder if the couples stayed together after or if they run into her bf when she's alive because that'd be awkward.
My last question is about the shadows. I noticed in one of your posts that you will be adding more stuff to this. Are we ever going to see how Smiley or Ezrebeth look? Or will that just stay that way as part of the mystery? Anyways, this was a pretty long post but I really enjoyed the story and how fleshed out the characters were.