Yay ^-^ So glad you enjoyed the game and thank you so much for taking the time to type up such a lovely comment too :3 Hehe, I will never fail to be blown away by Lazy Polar Bear's amazing art skills x3 Everything she draws pretty much makes me drool, haha, and the Blythe's are no exception :P As for the UI, tbh, if there had been more time in the jam, I probably would've tried to make it a little bit more unique to the game, because while the text boxes and loading screens + a few other bits were made specifically for this project, in order to save myself a huuuuuge chunk of time, I stole a template for some UI I made for an older project (my VNification/localisation of Yandere Heaven) and tweaked that in a bunch of ways cos UI takes soooo long to make from scratch, haha.
It's absolute hell putting so many expression changes into each line and trying to time it with the VA, but it's something I don't mind putting in the extra hours for cos I absolutely agree with you that it makes things look more lively :3 I love the end result too much to stop doing it x3
Hehe, *high five* for the competing yanderes love :P I too enjoy watching the shenanigans that can unfold when you get to be a bit of a devil and play them off against each other x3
Snap! On the blue version of Blythe too :3 Which was my main reason for making that one take more of a backseat for the jam cos that version leans more towards the kind of characters I tend to write more often, and I really fancied challenging myself to writing a more sugary sweet one for a change x3 I'm glad you still found orange Blythe cute too though :D Especially considering the fact that I thought orange was a little dull when I first finished the draft >.< I've said it in my postmortem and I think a couple of times in comments already, but it was mainly down to LPB's awesome art + the VA's amazing performances that orange actually grew on me! It did make me wonder if others might wind up getting the same kinda boring vibes from that version of Blythe that I first did though back when orange was just some words on a page x3 Happy to hear that wasn't the case for you!
And, snap! Again x3 It just had to be done, haha. Before I'd even finished the draft, I knew I wanted that to happen. I didn't quite know how we were going to get there at the time, but I knew it was going in xD And then, yeah, couldn't resist that lil extra bit of fun, haha.
That's great to hear regarding the neutral end too! It means it hit the way it was supposed to, which is something else I did wonder whether it would work or not! Phonobabble even said he wasn't particularly happy with his delivery of those lines due to playing them a different way to what he had for the rest of the game, to the point that he was considering doing some retakes, but I said to him, noooo, they're perfect! You hit the nail on the head with the delivery and interpreted it the exact way I was intending for it to come out ^-^
Hehe, not gonna lie, it was actually your comment here (specifically the part about the walkthrough) that reminded me I'd been an absolute moron and totally forgotten to actually write up one for the Darling Duality demo >.<” so thank you for that, haha. That should have been typed up and posted months ago, but it just completely slipped my mind!
Thanks so much for taking the time to play through the game and for all your kind words of support! It's much appreciated <3 With any luck, you'll enjoy blue Blythe's route even more once it eventually gets released into the wild x3