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Hey hey! No worries, I can understand what you're saying just fine and your English is great :3

Sadly, because this was made for a 1 month game jam (and I was trying to make 2 games in 1 month instead of just 1) I only had about 4-5 days to actually write most of the story xD So yeah, there are a lot of things that could have used more detail or been covered. In fact, there's A LOT of backstory + lore + extra stuff that was swimming around in my head but never actually made it into the game because of time restrictions. I knew that if I actually wanted to finish both games for the jam's deadline, I would have to make sure that I didn't go crazy with the writing x3

I wanted the main focus to be the mystery of it all and document Damme's descent into madness, and also wanted it to come across like a twisted fairytale-type story, so that's why I wound up deciding to only show glimpses of the character's relationship pre-curse as flashbacks. Also, I plan to expand their overall story at some point in my main project, Darling Duality :3

Glad you loved the OST ^-^ I had soooo much fun making it :D And yeah, it was such a privilege to get to work with such amazing voice actors on the project :3

Thanks so much for taking the time to play through it all and for stopping by to leave a comment as well <3  

I guess I better put the rest under...

SPOILERS

You're absolutely right that it was intentional regarding Morgen not seeming to love Damme as much as he loved her :D I wanted players to wonder if she even ever loved him at all, or if they were just friends and Damme's love was unrequited. I didn't want to show it specifically one way or another because I would prefer that players make up their own minds on how truly in love either of them were, hehe.

And as for Damme having nothing else, I mean, I don't really have anything else myself, haha. I have my family and I have 1 friend that I actually get to see in person. So if I lost my family, she would be the only person I had left >.< Of course, I have all my online friends too :3 But the flashbacks of Damme and Morgen were set during a time when there was no internet. By the time we are in the 'present' day where you're playing as MC instead of playing as Morgen, time has moved on quite a lot. I didn't explain this very well in the game >.< and with Morgen and Damme technically being immortal, I didn't want to specify the number of years that had passed either, it just would've been a long, long time x3

But yeah, while it wasn't explained during the flashbacks, Damme would've been the type to keep to himself. He was very close to his family, and Morgen was his one childhood friend. Everything he was doing in his life was to either help out his family or what his family wanted him to do. So for him, Morgen was a bit like having a sanctuary away from home. Someone who he could confide in that wasn't family. I guess she seemed so perfect to him because that was all he knew. Maybe if he'd met other girls, he wouldn't have fallen so hard for Morgen x3 But his family and Morgen were his everything. Without them, he would be nothing. Just lost and alone.

Again, the reason why there only ended up being a few different endings was mainly because of time restrictions >.< However, I also purposefully didn't implement a couple of the ideas I had because I decided that I want to save them to be part of their story whenever they eventually end up in Darling Duality x3 I also largely hope to make their tale one of revenge once it's expanded upon. So I sort of needed her to hate him in the end for the purposes of where I want to take their story next. That's not set in stone though, and I do agree and think it would be nice to also have an ending where things are less bitter :3