Hi Butter!!! Time to leave my itch comment!
So, what can I say… This game was absolutely wonderful in all its aspects! The art, first, is absolutely splendid, and using such a word feels like an understatement! MC’s hair was beautiful rendered, and the atmosphere felt like a dream, a glimpse of light in the cold of the night.
The music track was also absolutely beautiful and contributed to make the scene magical! It was perfectly situated between happy and sad, and was just a perfect track to use to convey the contrast between how sweet yet terrible love is!
Then, let’s talk about the GUI! You put a lot of effort in it, and it looks gorgeous! The speech bubble is beautiful, the fonts chosen just perfect and you kept everything readable! The changeS of main menu after completing the game once then twice are only proof of how polished this game is!
The writing too was absolutely outstanding! MC moved me so much! It never is easy to feel like you’re a painful addition to the person you love’s life; that you’re the one thing preventing them from realising their dreams and to become the person they deserve to discover. In that regard, you captured the MC’s feelings very well and they felt very relatable. Also, in terms of writing style, it was immaculate. The snow metaphors were perfect, and the alliterations very pleasant. Even theme-wise, snow is something both eternal (winter always comes)and ephemeral (it is meant to melt when spring awakes). And the dialogue we unlock after completing the game twice is absolutely wonderful, and sells the game as an amazing love story. I have honestly never played a game that captured so precisely and so amazingly the feeling of love!
This is an amazing first game, Butter, which goes beyond any reasonable expectations someone should have for a first game! The consistency of the art direction, the poetry of the writing, the beauty of the art, the special effects… Aaaaah, you really plunged me into a beautiful parenthesis of dream. Thanks for the whimsical experience and for this short masterpiece!!