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An adorable game further developing these incredibly lovable three characters and their relationship. The writing does an amazing job of being funny enough to make me laugh to myself like a maniac while still hitting hard with the emotional beats. The art really brings out the characters' personalities, as does the excellent music! I rate this five out of five lovely ladies.

Sorry if this kind of reads emotionless and sterile like an academic paper, I think I may have remote-learning-induced brain rot. I enjoyed this a lot! It's really great.

No, thank you for making such great games. I'm not exactly in a position to provide monetary support, so saying nice things is the least I can do.

I had intended to review this, like, a week ago but family stuff came up and yadda yadda. Anyways, better late than never, not even sure why I decided to inject my personal life into this but I don't believe in editing so let's go.

This game's a great follow-up to TToTGS's story, and I feel the improvements show a growth in the author that is very promising for future works. Although this tale is shorter, and contains slightly less variety on repeat playthroughs from what I could tell, the writing has broadly improved in my opinion and the three main characters work quite well with how their personalities interact. I also feel that keeping the story confined to one location meant that while there were less characters than in the prior game, more depth and character was given to the characters we did interact with. All three endings, and the variations on them, proved very enjoyable. I particularly liked how the characters' expressions on the title screen changed to reflect the most recent ending.

Tabby's a great addition to the cast, and the fact that she's more emotionally intelligent than the other two characters (and frankly, me) allows her to provide some interesting insight into Trixie and Nikita's relationship. The tone of the game is also well kept, with dark comedy highlighting the more genuinely scary moments. I think that in total the previous game was scarier, but this one was more funny and emotional - overall I would call it a great improvement and the tone shift is really rather slight.

The length of this post is approaching dangerously rambly territory, so to conclude I'll say that this was a great game and I strongly recommend it to anyone who finds it interesting, and especially anyone who enjoyed its predecessor.

P.S. I nearly forgot, but the art has improved as well in my opinion, not that it was lacking in the previous game! The music continues to be outstanding! Trans representation is wonderful! I have too many opinions about this game for my own well-being! That's all for real now. Thanks if anyone actually read this whole nonsense mess.

neat lil game. I liked it.

Wow! That's really impressive. Glad you appreciate the comment, I'm not big on reviews but this game really stuck with me and I felt that I should show my appreciation :). I really am excited for whatever you release next.

It occurs to me that the ratings and reviews aren't publicly visible on itch for whatever reason, so I'll be reposting my review in the hope of convincing more people to try this, since from what I gather Digital Poppy has a far smaller following than they deserve.

"A very interesting visual novel with branching pathways that add a surprising level of replayability. At times it proved genuinely scary, though I admit I'm something of an easy scare. Polish can be a bit lacking at times, but for an indie game clearly made on a rather small budget, that's certainly forgivable. Full disclosure, I did get this in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, so the effectively zero price for me may have biased my view somewhat. Regardless, I sincerely recommend anyone who finds the idea interesting to give the game a shot."

As of late I've also had more thoughts on the game (and its sequel!) which I'd like to write out here for... whatever reason. To get them out, I suppose. You see, I found myself strangely transfixed on this game even though by all measurements I could think of it wasn't a stand-out game. It was good, don't get me wrong, but didn't seem to be the kind of thing that I would just keep thinking about.

I think that the game stood out to me so much is simply that it has real heart - that is, you can see the love and effort put into it. Too many games these days feel so manufactured, with the only emotion being that strange corporate shadow of emotion. I am by no means a wordsmith and when it comes to feelings I am even less so, but there is a real honesty in this game's creation that I have difficulty putting into words. For that alone, I highly recommend it and also advise those who enjoyed this to look into the developer's other works, and perhaps even follow the developer. They certainly deserve the attention.

Oh yeah, and as so many others have noted, a cast of characters that would make old racists wet their graves is a superb addition, it's always great to see proper LGBT+ representation in media.

so uhh... I guess that didn't exactly pan out? I can't dig up much information on the development here... is there an estimated date for episodes 4 and onward?

I can't wait for somebody to make a ramming-based ship using the ability to ram, maybe combined with the new boost thrusters.

And of course, great update.