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waahh i love this game! The clear style, the presentation, the art, the characters- it's all so fun. You can feel the love seeping through every little detail. The fact that game mechanics push the player to become MORE immersed like buying stuff with a budget is so smart and fun. I ended up doing a bunch of little silly things for these characters and audibly reacting to stuff. Like I bought a strawberry drink for C and got disappointed she didn't drink it and yelled at myself for not saving an orange when sho started dancing. It's absolutely amazing how quickly I fell in love with these characters and I can't even pinpoint how exactly it was done but I loved every second of it.
aughhaghdhg the story- its been a while since I've played but the demo ending is still fresh on my mind, it was relatable and the sort of bittersweetness people can't help but try to smile through GRGRG the way B's mental illness is written is such a breath of fresh air and something I find so accurate in its subtly of lifestyle. The game shows you how many times she's cooked ramen in the past and that's so cool like I paused and just looked at it for a little bit like WOW THE PPL BEHIND THIS ARE SO COOL its never woe is me I'm so depressed I hate myself I hate everything it's just. numbness and exhaustion. And I really appreciate that. The self pitying depiction of mental illness is a drag to go through and doesn't feel realistic to me at all I relate to B a crazy amount with the way she goes through her days, it feels very genuine ykwim? I don't want to write a whole essay about how lovely I find this game so I'll just cut it short here even though I want to praise this game to the moon and back, I can't wait to see what the final game will be like.