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*whispers* when you have to bullshit your way through the surprise visit from the police, go for answers 1 - 1 - 2 (+ 1, not that there's any other option for the fourth one)

Worked for me! :)

Holy eff I didn't expect something that came across my dash as a random jam entry (you're all queens and kings for taking part in these events (☆□☆)) to be this fleshed out, complex, and so much fun! As someone who works in publishing, seeing this cousin of the "writer who has their own FBI agent" joke as a game made my day/week/month.

(All iterations of my MC have, so far, used "The Ghostwriter" as their made-up serial killer moniker and you can pry that from my cold, dead fingers.)

To add a little flavor to this comment section I have to praise V as a character, he's fantastic. The whole vigilante thing offset by the REST of him is *chef's kiss*. The "feeding the animals as a first date idea" bit had me howling, 10/10 would enjoy giving some presumably dangerous animals morsels of le boyfriend's ~righteous~ kills.

Of course, Ronin is also a riot, and I - in a spoiler for anyone not done with his route a bit further in this paragraph, you have been warned - had to go for his, uh, "good" ending several times before I came here thinking I was hopelessly dumb only to find out I had the pre-patch version installed. Somehow it all added to the experience. Crazy asshole deserves to be stabbed to death a few times before he gets a kiss :D

I still have the other two routes left (I have been pacing myself! and saving the femme fatale for last hh) but I'm already reccing this to all of my friends, even the straight male gamers who've never even come close to a VN, much less a dating sim; that's how much fun I'm having. You rock for making this. Thank you~~~~

Hi, I'm not the author but they posted a guide to the route here :)
https://robobarbie.itch.io/blooming-panic/devlog/326192/xyx-walkthrough

I came across Bloomic on a game rec list and when I read the "depressed day-in and day-out from a draining corporate job, you become invested in a fantasy webnovel" bit of the description I thought ah, finally an MC who is 100% me, so ofc I had to play it.

And you effin' delivered, damn. I loved everything about Bloomic, and I mean EVERYTHING. The setting? *chef's kiss*. The tracks (that we can change)? Living in my brain now. The fandom discord server dynamic? Spot-on. The zine, oh my gods, and the art too, that's just such a very fandom thing, and on a scale from cute to outright gorgeous too. The voice acting that at some points had me going "omo, dangerous >////<". And of course, first and most important--

--the characters. So relatable, and I genuinely had fun with all of them, and I sent a screenshot of one of toasty's lines to my very straight guy friend who's a blond FFXIV freak catboy to tell him I found his game alter ego. I have a fav route but I liked playing all of them, the good and the bad ends, and in each of them was something that made me care enough to lowkey want to know these people irl. My only tiny little regret is that onion doesn't have a route, because hell do I get attached to people who use proper spelling and punctuation even in chats. (I'm. Not kidding. Anyway--)

I also went through your profile to see if I can please throw some money at you for this epic gem but I see you've got that covered lol so I'll honor your wishes and donate instead :) I just! Would have! Given you a kidney probably! If you wanted. Really love the game, A+ job, all the virtual cookies for you and the whole team. Will replay whenever I'm feeling down from my mess of a job (which has been often, recently). Thank you, thank you, thank you.