Aw man, thanks KV!
I guess I am gravitating more towards that Pixel Remaster style as time goes on. It just feels like a natural aesthetic to me, so I am glad it's largely gone over well! :D
Yeah, totally agree on the face graphics. I was going to try 2x pixel scale instead of 3x but I already had about half the characters in the x3 scale already, and it would've been too time intensive to redo a bunch of them. (having inconsistent scales seemed worse than living with a bit of quality variation, at least at the time). I might try full HD faces in the future and see how it goes.
Therese is such a wordsmith! LOL
Honestly that gaffe with her recruitment dialog makes me cringe every time I see it. If I do a post-jam update, fixing that scene is gonna be top priority for sure.
Minus the placeholder snafu, constructing a satisfying narrative was basically my biggest "growth" effort for this jam, so I appreciate the feedback on the writing and characterization.
Thank you again for playing! It was a ton of fun (albeit stressful AF) to put together and reading all these comments has been great as well.