/spoilers ig, so don't read if you haven't done lake's route
thank you so, so, much for including a non-binary character. its so very rare to be represented in games, or even the wider media landscape. i've never felt quite right being called a man, and lake's route was just.. exactly the right thing at exactly the right time.
your game helped me discover who i am, and i can't thank you enough :)
solid 9.5/10, i'm glad that this ended as well as it did
spoilers ig?
as someone who fairly recently realised they're enby, i'm so glad that you've included not just a non binary character, but that their enby-ness is a major part of their character. i can name maybe 3 pieces of media that prominently feature someone non-binary, so i am unimaginably happy that something like this is included, even if it a felt a little heavy handed once.
sidenote, when replaying for each of the endings, i forgot how great the music is
holy hell you do not need to apologise for being slow for updates! considering you're doing the art, writing, composition and programming by yourself, the rate that updates are coming out is mad. i've seen whole teams come out with smaller updates on far longer timescales!
for some semblence of actual review, this is pretty great! the art is better than most, the music is good enough that i'd listen to it by itself and i absolutely love the worldbuidling. keep going at even half the quality you have right now and you'll have a fvn that's significantly better than most on itch.
very good! for something with only 3 of the 4 parts of the first chapter, this had some of the highest quality and abundance of art i've seen in an fvn yet! apart from some audio mixing issues <spoiler>especially during the climactic moment of tate's escape</spoiler> and inconsistent capitalisation during dialogue, i don't have any issues! a solid 8-8.5/10 vn, and i'm thoroughly excited to see where this goes next!
despite being called lust shards, this is still somehow a magnitude less horny than shelter
