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I am going to give an honest feedback here as a long-time Visual Novel player/reader.

The story sounds good and the writing is nice. There is a good idea for a VN that could turn into horror/suspense and investigation. 

The exposition of everything at the beginning might be a little too much. Try to dispatch more your information's to not overload your reader with informations that they do not find useful at the time.

Good points to keep up : 

- You have good writing, maybe try to expose a little less the characters & story elements straight on. Even more on a pure Visual Novel.

- Novel Studio Ren'py gives you a wide set of tools to make a key-in-hand VN and you tried to use them all which is nice.(Edited as I mixed up names)


Try to avoid :

- Try to not use AI for the characters next time. Novel Studio uses AI for it's in-package assets.

- You didn't had time to do the main piece of gameplay that is outside of Novel Studio Ren'py current toolset (The social media app) from what I understand. I would have preferred to see a poorly-drawn paint or free-assets VN game with less exposition but with the Social media App included.

- The music isn't really fitting the ambiance and kills the mood.


I tried to make this feedback hoping you didn't knew you were using AI artworks to help you as much as I could.

Thank you so much for playing our game!

I truly value your feedback and appreciate the information about Novel Studio. Our game was coded in Ren'py, not the Novel Studio engine, but we used character sprites purchased from Novel Studio's itch.io store. They unfortunately don't disclaim anywhere on their page about AI being used in the creation of their sprites. If we continue the project from here, we will look into replacing those first and foremost. Your feedback was very helpful. Much appreciated.

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I edited my answer as I inverted Novel Studio with Ren'py on my points, sorry !

Yeah that's what I thought as I looked into it  but it's clearly AI and not stated anywhere. Which is why I prefered to think that it wasn't wanted.  
Good job on your game still, you can be very proud  of it ~ I hope to see you more someday !