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wow. wow, okay, i...damn. yeah, this really really hit me. hope you're doing okay <3

Oh wow. Oh WOW OKAY IM. very excited for this. super awesome. played through three / five times, and. MMM. i love all the options. good luck w the rest!

I definitely laughed. Absolute BEAUTY. reminds me of a faux forensic case i had to do once. well done!

smiles

i'm about to play this game :))) and judging from the first few options i can see theres gonna be a lot of paths. gonna choose the worst one first

oh wow! the use of font is so cool. AND THE MUSIC is also banging. and im  only like 2 minutes in

(clap clap clap) that was so cool! eclectic, surreal, cool, and just. banger piece of fiction. loved the horror

That was very very pretty :) 

A little short, but that's okay.  I do suggest adding a 'the end' or something at, well, the end, so you can know that the story is over. Overall, though, enjoyed very much, descriptions incredibly cool :D

hullo! before i play this, i'd just like to say that on the ifdb, you have the story file set as 'no story file'. you actually have a z3 and a z5 file avaliable, so if you want to, feel free to update that description! now i'm gonna go play the game. thanks

Okay! Rightio. Alright. Cool. Hold up. Right. Okay. I HAVE THOUGHTS! 

As a young student with no job and A Family Situation, I did claim a free community copy (thank you for that!). On that same train of thought, I ask thee this! Will those of us who downloaded the game in the investigation phase be able to play the resolution phase with no further purchases? Sorry if you've already answered this before.

Okay, now onto the game. First off- I loved the OST. Like. It was AMAZING. Is there a way I can get it? It was so atmospheric, enough that it doesn't overtake the actual scene and rather focuses on providing the player with background noise. And it was also very pretty. 

Plot and Worldbuilding- holy mcheckin shit goddamn you guys. It's such a cool world! It's like, you've got Gifts, and it's so cool, and you can see with colours (which I'll touch on later), and you got the forces, and the environment, and literal maps!! And! The plot! Is SO GOOD. Because you can tell you've got some things put together, but you can't lock those in until you've got all of em (Which again, I will touch on that later!). And. The writing. Sound design. the rain. (starts sobbing) /pos

Character design- I'm a visual media student, and this is. So cool to me. Let us start with the hobo guy. NGL, he seems like a main character. or, like a narrator. love it, esp because of the 'i am homeless hello yes' thing. 

Nomnom's design; from the reference picture, you can already tell that nomnom is the more thinkative one, who plans what happens (and goddamn I was so right about that). They're so gender. And the art is so pretty.

Cannelé's design: Red is often associated with anger, or passion, and holy goddamn you got that on POINT. Cannelé is wildly fiery, impulsive, yet a quick thinker. Also love the little lineart colours. Awesome yes yes. 

Mech (claps) An (claps) Ics. MECHANICS. HOOOOOOOOLY. Holy. Just. Wow. The scoreboard! So cool! The investigation board! The card game!! Awesome!

How long did it take to get the pull-string board down thing w motion? look at it go, it's just weaving around. love it.

Oh, also! Thank you. So much. For adding the 'speed events' option. That is so important to me. It means I can, like, enjoy the story as it goes along with a choice to be speed or not. Much thank. 

I love the way the notes go zoom- I loved that so much, and the sounds. So good.

Subtle Touches and design elements: I knew when I saw the colours that there Was Something Up. I love the connections you made, and the way you utilised colour and POVs from said colour. From the get-go, you see very formed colour-roles from the dynamic duo (tm). And the glowy thing. SO cool. 

Also the bolded stuff. Like. clues and things. with emphasis. contrast. visual media. very smort.

Questions: 

• Pronouns? Hello? They keep changing and at this point I'm so intrigued but also very confused. (Thank you for adding some diversity <3333)
• Can we have pictures of Philbert? Please? I love him. 
• Is there any way I can submit theories that isn't a game mechanic?

Feedback: 

Right, so a couple qualms. One of which is my ADHD brain remembers jackshit. So, maybe like, a log of what's been said? (Like, I know ren'py has an inbuilt function, but I gathered very quickly y'all aren't using renpy).

in that same realm, mayhaps holding down an enter button fast-forwards things? i am aware it's not ideal if you're trying to savour the plot, but maybe you can use some sorta mechanic that allows you to not skip the text the first time you see it

Uh.. what else. Enlarge the evidence board. please. I beg of you. thanks

Words for the devs: y'all keep doing your thing. it's amazing. thank you. hydrate or diedrate btw :) 

camille get sleep challenge real?

Suggestions:

• If it's at all possible, maybe make more saves? I got lost a couple times w trying to redo certain choices.

• Was a little confused as to the master volume- usually that implies that they have a sound effects volume and a music volume, but that's also cool if not. 

• Colour-coding some notes/leads to make it easier to connect to, a lá Outer Wilds. Also with the boards, a way of organising it easier? Maybe a button from a lead which snaps all the ties you made to it?

• With the evidence board locks, how it shows the little, uh, unlocking cutscene but glows red when it's not correct?  I'd like a way of maybe help with that- maybe one of them flashes green with the one you got right that's connected? Or it shows (x) amount of green dots instead of red as per what you got wrong/right?

• a control that allows you to quit the game /lh

• (Maybe only if the player tries for like, a long time, you could add a little mechanic like that if possible [keep in mind I have no clue what engine/language you're codin' this in, so I have no idea what possibilities there are].)

Stuff while I was playing that I said:

• "WHY AM I BLUE" (a couple seconds later) "called it"
• [insert panicking about the score system here]
• "why do i have a feeling this is a meganic"
• "that will be used"
• (yes, i said meganic)
• (When seeing Laeftitia) OUI OUI MON AMI J'MAPELLE LAFFEYETTE! 
• 'i hate gambling.'
• WHAT
• 'okay so either option i chose i was gonna be laughed at. i'm chill w this'

Okay! Hope this is enough feedback for someone who got a free copy! Wish I could support ya more, but in the meantime, take this review, hope it helps :D

(Also sorry for the long-ass comment, I had a lot to say haha.)

(Edit; Also a typo, not sure if they're intentional, but 'They look like they're used toing do this..' and I'm decently sure this is a design choice but there's a purple cursor after Fleur d'Âme in the first chapter! :)

okay, gonna be editing this every new thing i do!

- i love how the characters each have a dif view

-goshdarn cliffhangers

- these puzzles are GREAT

- il ove this dry humor so much

- the fact you made it FREE

- the detail between 'contestants' and the individual names when puzzling- SO GOOD

- cjapter 13 had me sobbing like a b

- NOOO YOU DID WHAT

hello hi where's the clue im so stuck

super calming, also loved the ending <3

OW OW okay that's so cool

freaky as all hell, but cool, i love how the text slows down sometimes and the echo is awesome. uh, couple spelling errors, in the word "brake" it should be "break" and there's another beore that i forgot but sitll there. love this so far!

i do have a question- what war was this about? as in, what country, if you don't mind me asking? it's an amazing concept

cLAP CLAP CLAP wow this was good

so confused, but that's the suspense that i needed

this is very cool, and like- i love it so much, that my choices did not indeed matter. very awesome /gen

drink some water!

i love that these are accurate! it inspires me to make something bout flower meanings <3

i'm glad you enjoy my pain /lh

it was awesome, btw :D

o/o/ hi just here to say i just started this and i already see you've put  a lot of research into this! the norse runes at the front mean strength (uruz) protection (algiz) and joy (wunjo)! relaly cool :D

..... so fun fact! i forgot i had this on! and then it screamed at me, and then I jumped! i cannot wait until this thing is on during an exam and i just

just

this is an amazing idea i love this chaos

all i have to say to this: thank you.

also, cat. love the babeeeeey

o/ o/ first off- love this so much, it really warmed my heart? dunno how to say it but it's amazing

secondly, it's nice to meet another australian haha- out of the blue ik but we're an endangered species

thirdly, thanks for helping me get through stuff <3 your games and your writings and everything are so- like- yknow the feeling of warmth when you're just alone, but you're enjoying like the view or something? that feeling. thank you <3

can i please pull froggy out of the pot?  i want to pull them out and hug them.

i'd just like to say, your games are a huge inspiration to me. they're comfort games to me, and i really do hope you're alright. thanks for making these, and have a lovely day <3

...casually sending this to my online friend who's name is fishee...