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Nice story, art and audio! I got the normal ending first, got it again, then read the guide and got the other three.

Story and theme: I liked the story, although even after seeing all four endings I wonder why the MC does this. I guess they’re friends with the vampire or something, but it also seems like they only meet for tea and blood and never meet for other reasons, or at least I seem to remember a line saying “see you in three months” or something like that. And between being set on Halloween and involving a vampire drinking blood I think it’s pretty halloweeny.

Side note: in English, you “eat” soup, but there might be languages where you can drink soup. Or languages that use the same word for eating and drinking. I’m mentioning that since the vampire seems to mention other cultures when talking about drinking tea.

Audio: Both pieces of music seem pretty chill and also a bit worried. And I like the sound effects (perhaps in part because sound effect seem to often be one of the first pieces of polish to go when a jam entry developer is running out of time).

Art: Not that there’s a lot of it, but what there is seems pretty good. And it doesn’t feel like there should be more than there is.

UI and Accessibility: A bit basic. I can’t even speed up the text (which can get a bit annoying when playing several times to get the different endings; there isn’t even something that speeds up the text appearing if I click or press a key before a line finishes “typing”). And there isn’t a back, history, skip or save button. There’s a settings menu so I can change the volume of the music and sound effects, although I’m not sure what “always dash” and “command remember” are supposed to do (probably leftover options from some engine functionality you aren’t using).

Marketing: The logline and the logo together show pretty well roughly what type of game it is, and the game page seems pretty polished too.

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Thank you for the very detailed review!!

-The soup comment was interesting! I actually googled first whether you "drink" or "eat" soup, and I am aware of the differences across cultures and languages, but decided to specifically follow English grammar-wise for his not-so-thoughtful rant XD

-About the UI, you are very right :") As stated in my devlog, I'm also not proud of it, and due to time limits I had to use a software I'm already comfortable with, that is not really designed for Visual Novels ;;

Edit: forgot to mention, you can make the text appear faster by long-pressing the enter key!

I'll definitely take your review into account! And thanks for playing and getting all the endings! 

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You’re welcome! And it looks like I can long-press the left mouse button too. Some entries require me to use the mouse for choices and the keyboard for advancing text, but this one at least lets me advance the text with the mouse and make choices with the keyboard too. And I noticed that you formatted the text a bit like subtitles (i.e. I think you manually inserted linebreaks so that I wouldn’t see the start of a word appearing on one line and then not fitting on that line and having to fall unto the line below).

And since I didn’t end my review with a conclusion, here’s one: What I liked most was the story with the educational bits (and the logline too), and what I’d suggest improving would probably be mentioning the thing about long-pressing enter/space/LMB to make the text advance faster.