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NIHIL

A queer furry horror/romance visual novel · By nihilvn

My full (positive) interpretation about this VN.

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So I just finished reading it, obviously I must leave my analysis over here, not because it's a must, but because of I'm kinda hyped.

So far, the story is real good. I WILL DEFINATELY MOVE INTO BRETT'S HOME. (I hope he's a top, I mean surely he is...) The visual elements are especially good, like the backgrounds and the illustrations. I often experience other visual novels that have a brighter story, a more positive path in the story, but they are kinda ruining that idealism with lethargic backgrounds. Imagine it like this: "It's a hot summer day, and I am finally reuniting with my friends! The flowers are blooming near the countryside road..." and the background feels like that it's gonna be raining there. But this visual novel has that kinda mystical, suburban-ish vibes. The colors are all tainted, kind of more on the monochrome side and the writing is really fitting to it. It's a really good balance and I really like it.

As for the characters, I am kinda concerned, if you ask me, I will probably date only Brett and Joshua. I like everybody's personality, (Mc is a little too clueless though, but I can live with that) probably my preference is speaking here but I just really can't do anything with Michael or Ty. Although I like Michael's attitude, but describing him muscular is a little off for me with that belly xd Although I'm not a fan of him with that beard and mustache, it can look really good, but I feel like his appearance somehow doesn't fit it. I really can't pin-point it out, so it's really about my preferences probably. I'm sure others like him the way he is. Anyways, I imagined him as a sort of athlete, but with a little more bulk than what Brett has and with no beard. About Ty, hmmmm... his personality is fitting to the character, but with that hair, the beard feels too thick and the colors doesn't blend well enough compared to Joshua. Joshua's colors are more on the complementary side because of the black and white, but with those two colors everything goes pretty well. Dark royal blue with a really dark brown can too, but they are kinda too vibrant in my opinion. Also his hairstyle can go really well with a beard, but I think it's too thick. On the otherhand, I really like how the characters in the story represents realistically a proper body-image. That's really good. <3

The music is really well balanced too, you are using it efficiently to boost the mood, then making it to slowly fade away as we progress, it feels like you are building up the atmosphere with it, which is perfect.

The menu, UI and the phone has some problems though. The menu isn't really clear to understand at first sight, it's not a big deal, but I was a little confused at first, like where is the load button, etc, the phone sometimes hide words on the rights side, first row, and the dyslexic font is way bigger for the size of the placeholder for the chat on Android version. In over-all, the menu needs a little design and simplification, but gosh, I can already imagine how rich and big this visual novel can be, it's rare to see a project like this nowadays, and I am really, but really excited to read more!

My rating is ☆☆☆☆☆ obviously! I hope the next build comes soon! <3 Amazing first build though, a really nice job!