Absolutely stunning. Been savoring these over the last few months, just played the epic finale today. Been enjoying your games for a decade plus so it's really awesome to see so much of your style synthesized into such a dense hilarious vision. (ZZ's the best)
Phoenix Wright-level VN presentation punchiness... Love the countless little details like sculpting the text lines around the CGs, all the expression changes, the sound effects. The music is great, I think it rules you moved from royalty-free tracks to doing your own ost and it still all fits together just right. Made me laugh a bunch and the story is very sweet <3 Thanks for another lovely visual novel!
Aaaaaaa I haven't heard from a new Her Lullaby/Afterward player in ages. These stories are still really special to us, thanks so much for playing and for the kind words.
Adorable and excellent full-featured action rpg in a bite-sized package, can't think of a single thing I'd want to change about it. Y'all really knocked it out of the park with this one. Everyone read the manual too if you haven't, it's really cute and funny!
The writing's fantastic obviously, I also loved how you used map tiles to make little interstitial CGs, felt very ZZT. Really loved this lotus, thank you for making and sharing it.
Found 16/16 slimes! Love the poetry of the different slime descriptions intermingling with the dreams, and the gorgeous thoughtful maps. This was really really lovely nilson.
Cleared! This was really neat. I love the progression of the enemy types and the slow escalation in pattern complexity. By the end it was genuinely pretty thrilling hurling my axe around dense rooms and teleporting everywhere. Nice job!
Cleared on Superhard, 786590 points! Really satisfying, good stages and super-fun boss patterns, enjoyed building my medal loops. Thanks for making this, nice to get a quick two stage blast of good shmup action.
This was really cute and fun to puzzle out! I appreciate how there's a hard platforming path to the exit and also a methodical explore-y path that just requires knowledge. I had fun making a nice l'il map!
This was really dope! I was a little frustrated up front when I didn't understand stuff like the break meter or the mist, but as I explored more of the game it slowly answered all of my questions, and the answers were all cool and satisfying. I actually like locking some of the tutorial NPCs behind locked doors -- you get to talk to them before the last dungeon when all that knowledge really matters, and it avoids blasting you with too much tutorial text before you have any context for it. The guard and break stuff is a really cool and different way of thinking about rpg healing.
The last boss was a really hype stakes-raising moment after I felt like I'd more or less mastered the fighting. I know this is a demo, but just as an rpg mechanics/combat gauntlet this is already a really satisfying arc. I think you've got a really strong language here, and whatever story you wanna tell with it has the potential to turn out really cool and special.
This was really cute and sweet, loved the changes in perspective. It's easy for this kind of thing to feel overly saccharine, but the writing is careful and understated in just the right way to feel maximally cozy and nice.
