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this is probably going to seem silly, but i genuinely liked this a lot and think it's kind of good! (sorry!) the difficult to parse chaotic visuals and the weirdly difficult-to-use textbox and the blinking and the timer and everything all hangs together in a very appealing way for me. maybe because it feels like a great encapsulation of the intense anxiety i feel when i go to something like this, lol.

i was thinking about tinkering with this for the "fix-it" jam actually, but i'm not sure i'm actually going to do that - one reason being that while i kept thinking about this game i was having a hard time thinking about what i would even want to change besides making it a bit easier to read (although even just that seems like it would such a detriment to the horrible vibes of the game!)

yahoo! soulsov rules!! this vn really is great. gg's art is a delight to behold, and their skill with color is especially wonderful. the writing is intriguing and charming and the characters are delightful. there are a lot of crummy visual novels in this world and this is not one of them. this one is good instead. everyone i know who has played/read soulsov has adored it. if you like fantasy at all, you will enjoy this i think! i am so excited for more to come out.

i loved this!

this is really great! the colors and shapes are so lovely. i really enjoyed looking at the creatures.  i hope you make another one of these!

I played a session of this with my friends tonight! There's four of us, and we played through character creation/setup and four "episodes." It ended up taking just about four hours. 

We played with some homebrew additions to the Archetypes, Teen Complications, and Conflicts, to add some options more suited to our tastes (such as "someone dies" as a Conflict, which did happen).

It's fun, and the structure helps keep things moving at a nice pace as well as helping provide a lot of direction! The vibe is great and perfectly set us up for a breezy fun episodic teen drama vibe.

My main quibble is that we found incorporating our Archetypes into the Plays was pretty easy and so winning felt too easy. We're going to tweak some things to see if we can make losing feel more likely.

Setup was quick and easy and felt very collaborative and natural. I enjoyed having a different Main Character for every episode, and our Can't Lose bonus questions have been great for adding moments of character drama and setting up character beats for others to follow up on in later episodes!

Our group is not familiar with football basically at all, so the Plays have been a bit of a struggle, but now that we've done a session I feel like I've got a better grip of how I want them to work. It definitely does work just fine if you aren't familiar with football! I think I'd recommend picking a sport you have a bit of familiarity with though just because it can feel a little awkward trying to come up with things for your character to be actually doing otherwise, which slows the pace of the game down some, haha.

Would definitely recommend playing this!! Especially if you like teen TV dramas. It's easy to get into, fun to play, and uses the Teen TV Drama structure super well I think. Having everybody have a turn as Main Character and everybody encouraged to play NPCs felt like a great way to make sure everybody was playing as much as they were happy with without anyone stepping on each others' toes. Good stuff!!

Just played this! I think this is a very nicely-written and atmospheric game, highly reminiscent of Sunless Sea (I put on the Sunless Sea soundtrack while I played). Playing it took me about twenty-five minutes.

I really really love the premise of this game, though I think it's more fun to read than to play - the "prompts" are so detailed that they don't feel like they leave much room for journal entries at all, and I found myself struggling to write more than a sentence apiece. It's a good read, though! 

I just played this today! It was a really fun light game, super quick and sweet. The prompts are a nice combination of specific and broad, and I had fun exploring the little market. I got all the crystals and made two spirit friends :)

Definitely recommend checking this out if you want a warmup or a quick break; it sparks creativity and makes it feel very easy. I bet kids would really enjoy this.