It's very good! I'm really not into horror games as I get scared extremely easily and don't like to be too, but this game isn't too over the top with horror. Very well appreciated this. Pretty unfortunate that the source code was lost but I'm definitively looking forward to that remake. I was thinking you could perhaps decompile the game somehow to recover a large portion of the game, but I haven't looked into this solution myself.
Anyway, here's some feedback after this wall of text:
- Graphics are pretty good, them not being too complex but enough to have details is a big plus
- It feels somewhat confusing or slow at times, especially when trying to find the last few totems
- I struggled at the start to know what to do. I at first thought the totems were cobwebs and didn't bother doing anything with them for a good while
- I believe I saw your response concerning checkpoints and that the lack of them was intentional, but I really think it could make the game be much more appealing to a bunch of players if an option to have a checkpoint when entering the dark forest was available
- I actually really like that the birch demon can be stopped at any distance as long as you look in her direction, no matter if actual sight is present