i... wow.
i believe i commented in one of your games that you always nail the atmosphere in all of your projects. well, this has convinced me you're also a goddamn expert at storytelling.
we just don't get stories like these anymore. so well-written, so genuine, so simple and so complex, so thought-provoking and so charged with little things that have so much meaning behind them... simply put, this was beautiful.
i could gush about the characters and how it feels like we're just taking a peek into this world, giving the feeling that there's so many other stories that could be told. written or not. like this was a chapter in a universe that had so much passion put into its creation.
i could gush about the art style, and how small things like how part of Rubi's hair and sparkles following you around, or the animations of the animals changing slightly while running, or just the text font (which you made YOURSELF what?!?!) add so much texture to this story and make it feel more alive.
i could gush about the music, which was excellently used all the way through and a ridiculously great first attempt at making an ost from scratch (need the mp3's for the forest theme and animal transformation rn, please and thank you).
i could gush about the narration, which is SO FRIGGIN GOOD and conveys the feeling of a storybook better than... honestly anything else i've seen? it nails things so much that even just the first description of the father -literally only like 5 TO 10 pieces of text- already made me feel intimidated.
i could gush about all of that...
...but i won't, because i was too busy chanting "FOREST YURI FOREST YURI FOREST YURI" repeatedly during my entire playthough so i didn't pay attention to anything, sorry!
edit: wait what do you mean gLYPHOSATE IS AN ACTUAL THING WHAT-