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fixed!

fixed! Sorry it took me so long, i think what happened is that i accidentally edited this page with the new comic while publishing it, panicked and hid it, and forgot to fix it once i published the new one.

For some reason i also don't have the original PDF anymore, but the one i just made should be exactly the same.

do tell me if you need more help!

This is probably gonna sound embarassingly ernest but honestly fuck it, i loved this thing

I just went through my first playthrough and despite the fact that the "gameplay" was so slow at first impressions, i had free time so i told myself "what the heck, this game doesn't have savepoints so i'll power through, we'll see if i get too bored to continue" . Put a cover over my screen to get myself in a darker environment and fully commit to the experience, and i wasn't disappointed with what essentially is nearly an hour of slow walking.

Now, i was too sleepy to properly pay attention to the text in the game so i probably missed a bunch of stuff, but what i did experience, deliberate or not, is a degree of immersion i don't get pretty much ever in games... I'm south European, living in Britain, my childhood was so similar to what i found in some of this game's environments that i could fully imagine every homesickness-inducing detail: the warmth of the blinding sun, the cool breeze that makes you shiver through your damp clothes as you walk into a tiled hallway that echoes your footsteps back at you, the creakiness of thin, metal and glass doors that never really shut properly, the grime on walls that were painted so long ago the paint is coming off in flakes that adults bark at you for peeling off... i cannot explain why but looking through the window felt like i had looked through it my entire childhood, saw the small view change over the years in places, stay the exact same in others, saw all sorts of people going through, watched the outline of the sky change with the time of day; like in a dream. I wouldn't be surprised if five years from now i'll recall this memory and will feel very confused about it.

tl;dr: 10/10 gave me some long term artificial memories