I loved it, too much seriously, although it would be even better if I could get revenge on that damn bitch Twyla, and that everything went according to plan, but oh well, hopefully in the future there will be an opportunity :"3
Wow! I came here after finishing because I wanted to gush about it but I'm astonished by how toxic these comments are, for 1) an awesome game that 2) was clearly a labor of love updated painstakingly over years with 3) a lot of emotional investment and clever writing and 4) intentional cool representation choices and 5) IS FREE. IS FREE. IS FREE. YOU PLAY IT AND IT'S HOURS OF CONTENT AND IT'S FREE.
Anyway....
No I didn't see the ending coming (and am VERY glad I didn't check out the comments first) but having played it all in the course of a couple days, I really admire how the game starts out very much like there is something wrong, horrror or SOMEthing is present in the background, but the episodic character focused chapters lull you into a false sense of security. I thought maybe the backstory of a Murder Occuring was a loose thread, and the character being self-aware in their manipulation was more of a genre parody, before the game whacks you in the face. The title screen change was very much a rousing YOOO!! LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! moment.
The character routes being linear and with obvious and immediate failstates has me feeling some type of way. When you don't get it on your first or second go, it's annoying, because you feel like you have to "game" the character's reaction instead of getting to know them - which is itself a really neat self-aware critique of dating games I think, and a cool way to address the inherant completionism that comes alongside it. It does also make me proud and a little extra attached to the ones whose routes I got on the first go. Or to the ones I failed but for reasons that, in real life, I would find really reasonable. (Theodore, I'm not a snitch. Even if in high school I was way more of a Jaxter type. Gunter, I'm 100% with you dude - I'm not well off but I have just enough money that I feel like a bad friend if I don't offer other people whatever I've got. And Mary... Mary, I'm neither bi nor ace in terms of how I ID right now, but I've never met a more relatable character in my life.)
Speaking of representation, I really appreciate the choices to incorporate pride flags into character designs. I don't think that would work for EVERY game but it works for this one. I'm scrolling back through chapters and I'm seeing ones I didn't notice during actual play, again mostly thanks to Mary. Jaxter running around in a pan flag all night every night but (from what I remember...) switching to just blue for the dance makes me sad for him ahahaa. In a way that hints at some character beats if you squint. Speaking of, yoo, the psychosexual melodrama of high school girl crushes going on between Netina and Mary. I don't even know. Also being on the spectrum, there is probably enough in that topic I don't want to even get into for fear of discovering some kind of big bummer about my own high school memories lmao.
So much to still be said post-ending. Are we actually able to move on like we expect to? Do we have enough of a disconnect between our plans vs our actual friendships to miss what we had? We already missed Acanthibar so much that I'm skeptical that our connections are as easily severed as we want them to be. (Not to belabor the "good foreshadowing" point, but the cafeteria question that Twyla asked....!!!)
I don't think I ever got that secret chapter though... and now I'm especially curious since we had to do so much savescumming to get just to the endgame.
Edit - Oh!! I also wanted to mention the eerieness of the setting sort of wearing at you. Not in the design of the actual locations but in how the POV character keeps periodically noticing how the weather is always perfect, and how the classes are always just interesting enough to be challenging but not discouraging, how obfuscated the school's reasoning is for selecting students.
Edit- ALSO MARY'S SPRITES!! I almost forgot Mary's frogs emoting for her being the greatest thing since sliced bread
Edit - I do also still prefer Dark Evil Messed Up and Wicked music lmao, because I have an actual grandfather chime clock I got to keep my sense of time in line, so having an hour chime get in your head is so chronologically confusing hahah. Although speaking of the audio, having a text to speech option coded into the game is SO cool
I would check out my games like Cemetery Mary or Blackout Hospital! They feature many of the characters featured here. Cemetery Mary is especially good if you'd like to see Theo.
I love it when you Direct your cursor at Mary and Reginald's chapter option they are staring at each other in love ( I just finished the game and woah there I didn't expect the heart breaking )
I give the game like 2/5 I wish we won though :( I wish there was another ending I really like the game it was good I wish we got a little back story on the dad and our mom.
(HELP I STARTED TO CRYYYYY THE FUCKING PLOT TWIST I FEEL BAD FOR THEO AND ZAPARA MY BABYS WAAA (I GOT A TINY CRUSH ON THEO THE CUTE NICKNAMES WHYYY)
Great game,like,really really great,Not gonna lie,the plot was amazing,so subtle all the game,with little details here and there,but... Yeah,the ending,Not wanting to spoil is,but could you guys (the game devs) make a alternative ending? Like,Its quite dissapointing how it ends,and some things werent explained
The game is although pretty great! But like most player, the ending got me, i'm not specially disappointed by the plot twist i actually liked it a lot.
( I'm gonna go into spoilers now so i'd recommend to not read if you didn't played the game yet ) it's more the fact that we lost to Twyla that disappointed me.. Like, this could have been avoided so easily, at first i thought there was gonna be an alternate ending, since Mary's frog told us about Twyla going in our room, but his intervention was actually completely useless since Twyla explained how she learned about the fact that we eat hearts.. other thing, after finishing the night before, I kinda expected that we'd be able to replay all chapter but with a version where we break their heart since the main menu changed but that wasn't the case at all.. which kinda disappointed me. But overall the game was great, i''d give it around 6/10
The game was enjoyable 4/5 stars! I do wish there was a chance to actually romance the charactrs. The art is amazing and i'll be real the dad was attractive too. I'd totally pay for a DLC or something that turns it into a romance instead. Theodore was my personal favorite especially because of the anarchy symbol in his dorm. Awesome game and I would totally enjoy seeing more of these characters.
Is there a way to fix your name/presentation after you play it once? I seem to be stuck with the same name I picked my first playthrough and now that I'm trying to replay it, I don't really want it :(
Possible Spoiler ahead so don't read if you have not beat it.
Rating Change:
2/5
The game is complete but can we get a update where the ending is different? Honestly the ending is not good at all and so plainly obvious. Like i really love the game but like the ending was just such a boring and dumb let down. Again you see ending coming from a mile away and really it just bugs and annoys me because it's not a twist its just a boring cliche that turns me away. Like this game made me feel like hey you finally get to play as the bad girl and be the bug evil but then if you have common knowledge and can piece together that the Owl girl is onto you, then it just really turns you away. God That ending is just making me go crazy with how much i don't like it😑 Literally stopped the first time playing it to paint my nails. So can we get a possible bad end where we ignore her calling us over and actually go through with plan?🥺 Please?🥺 Pretty please?🥺 Let me be the bad girl instead of losing to a character that literally isn't even scary or even bad girl🥺😒 She Cleary isn't heartless because she clearly cares about her friends if she doesn't want any of our kind at the school. Anyway i apologize as i really do love your games and love your story telling in others, but this game just isn't good because there's only one ending and it such a let down for girls like me who just want to be the evil for once😅🤣 Also apologize if anything is spelled wrong or worded wrongly as English is not my language but i am taking the time and effort to learn😝✌️ Please don't hate me dev i am a fan just not fan of this game🤣🥺
i knocked this game out in like 4 hours. i came for the art, and stayed for the characters! idk if this game is canon or some sort of au, but I'm loving it!
Facts the ending was kind of bad for me like i seen it coming and the fact that its the only ending really turns me away from it because its not a interesting end its just ugh😒
So im on the night before the dance an im actually so shocked??? Why am i suddenly starting to want to break everyones hearts!? I was genuinely hoping i would get to ask one of them out to the dance instead of twyla in the end but now i have to eat them? WHAT IS GOING ON!!>!!!>!? I really liked all the chracters especially mary and theo but not i have to hurt them sad sad :(((
just finished the game omg/? I didnt expect that at all. overall that was a great game i speant about 4 hours on it and i would say it was totally worth it!
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I loved it, too much seriously, although it would be even better if I could get revenge on that damn bitch Twyla, and that everything went according to plan, but oh well, hopefully in the future there will be an opportunity :"3
Really loved this game!!! Adored the art for it too :3 (the rest of the videos will be coming out soon!)
I love this game but omg,
I'm trying to find a guide to get the other endings (if there is any) T.T, pls help me people of itchio
There is only one ending!
okay thank you! I was so worried on getting another ending now I can sleep peacefully ^^
Gunter'z 100% based on Gonta.
Even their namez sound similar.
The 3 genderz. short hair, long hair, & Miku hair.
Wow! I came here after finishing because I wanted to gush about it but I'm astonished by how toxic these comments are, for 1) an awesome game that 2) was clearly a labor of love updated painstakingly over years with 3) a lot of emotional investment and clever writing and 4) intentional cool representation choices and 5) IS FREE. IS FREE. IS FREE. YOU PLAY IT AND IT'S HOURS OF CONTENT AND IT'S FREE.
Anyway....
No I didn't see the ending coming (and am VERY glad I didn't check out the comments first) but having played it all in the course of a couple days, I really admire how the game starts out very much like there is something wrong, horrror or SOMEthing is present in the background, but the episodic character focused chapters lull you into a false sense of security. I thought maybe the backstory of a Murder Occuring was a loose thread, and the character being self-aware in their manipulation was more of a genre parody, before the game whacks you in the face. The title screen change was very much a rousing YOOO!! LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! moment.
The character routes being linear and with obvious and immediate failstates has me feeling some type of way. When you don't get it on your first or second go, it's annoying, because you feel like you have to "game" the character's reaction instead of getting to know them - which is itself a really neat self-aware critique of dating games I think, and a cool way to address the inherant completionism that comes alongside it. It does also make me proud and a little extra attached to the ones whose routes I got on the first go. Or to the ones I failed but for reasons that, in real life, I would find really reasonable. (Theodore, I'm not a snitch. Even if in high school I was way more of a Jaxter type. Gunter, I'm 100% with you dude - I'm not well off but I have just enough money that I feel like a bad friend if I don't offer other people whatever I've got. And Mary... Mary, I'm neither bi nor ace in terms of how I ID right now, but I've never met a more relatable character in my life.)
Speaking of representation, I really appreciate the choices to incorporate pride flags into character designs. I don't think that would work for EVERY game but it works for this one. I'm scrolling back through chapters and I'm seeing ones I didn't notice during actual play, again mostly thanks to Mary. Jaxter running around in a pan flag all night every night but (from what I remember...) switching to just blue for the dance makes me sad for him ahahaa. In a way that hints at some character beats if you squint. Speaking of, yoo, the psychosexual melodrama of high school girl crushes going on between Netina and Mary. I don't even know. Also being on the spectrum, there is probably enough in that topic I don't want to even get into for fear of discovering some kind of big bummer about my own high school memories lmao.
So much to still be said post-ending. Are we actually able to move on like we expect to? Do we have enough of a disconnect between our plans vs our actual friendships to miss what we had? We already missed Acanthibar so much that I'm skeptical that our connections are as easily severed as we want them to be. (Not to belabor the "good foreshadowing" point, but the cafeteria question that Twyla asked....!!!)
I don't think I ever got that secret chapter though... and now I'm especially curious since we had to do so much savescumming to get just to the endgame.
Edit - Oh!! I also wanted to mention the eerieness of the setting sort of wearing at you. Not in the design of the actual locations but in how the POV character keeps periodically noticing how the weather is always perfect, and how the classes are always just interesting enough to be challenging but not discouraging, how obfuscated the school's reasoning is for selecting students.
Edit- ALSO MARY'S SPRITES!! I almost forgot Mary's frogs emoting for her being the greatest thing since sliced bread
Edit - I do also still prefer Dark Evil Messed Up and Wicked music lmao, because I have an actual grandfather chime clock I got to keep my sense of time in line, so having an hour chime get in your head is so chronologically confusing hahah. Although speaking of the audio, having a text to speech option coded into the game is SO cool
I l;ove this! And i wish there were full games about so,me or all of these people, like theo :33
I would check out my games like Cemetery Mary or Blackout Hospital! They feature many of the characters featured here. Cemetery Mary is especially good if you'd like to see Theo.
Yee thank you :3333 I already downloaded it but i havent found the time to play yet DD:
personally, this is boring
NOOO I FEEL SO BAD THAT IBROKE EVERYONES HEART :CCC ALSO THE LORE ISNT LOREING(also what was zapara clean of if that makes sense)
I love it when you Direct your cursor at Mary and Reginald's chapter option they are staring at each other in love ( I just finished the game and woah there I didn't expect the heart breaking )
I give the game like 2/5 I wish we won though :( I wish there was another ending I really like the game it was good I wish we got a little back story on the dad and our mom.
(HELP I STARTED TO CRYYYYY THE FUCKING PLOT TWIST I FEEL BAD FOR THEO AND ZAPARA MY BABYS WAAA (I GOT A TINY CRUSH ON THEO THE CUTE NICKNAMES WHYYY)
is mrs b our mum like is she amnesiac?
Great game,like,really really great,Not gonna lie,the plot was amazing,so subtle all the game,with little details here and there,but... Yeah,the ending,Not wanting to spoil is,but could you guys (the game devs) make a alternative ending? Like,Its quite dissapointing how it ends,and some things werent explained
The game is although pretty great! But like most player, the ending got me, i'm not specially disappointed by the plot twist i actually liked it a lot.
( I'm gonna go into spoilers now so i'd recommend to not read if you didn't played the game yet )
it's more the fact that we lost to Twyla that disappointed me.. Like, this could have been avoided so easily, at first i thought there was gonna be an alternate ending, since Mary's frog told us about Twyla going in our room, but his intervention was actually completely useless since Twyla explained how she learned about the fact that we eat hearts.. other thing, after finishing the night before, I kinda expected that we'd be able to replay all chapter but with a version where we break their heart since the main menu changed but that wasn't the case at all.. which kinda disappointed me. But overall the game was great, i''d give it around 6/10
The game was enjoyable 4/5 stars! I do wish there was a chance to actually romance the charactrs. The art is amazing and i'll be real the dad was attractive too. I'd totally pay for a DLC or something that turns it into a romance instead. Theodore was my personal favorite especially because of the anarchy symbol in his dorm. Awesome game and I would totally enjoy seeing more of these characters.
Is there a way to fix your name/presentation after you play it once? I seem to be stuck with the same name I picked my first playthrough and now that I'm trying to replay it, I don't really want it :(
THE HUGE PLOT TWIST
Possible Spoiler ahead so don't read if you have not beat it.
Rating Change:
2/5
The game is complete but can we get a update where the ending is different? Honestly the ending is not good at all and so plainly obvious. Like i really love the game but like the ending was just such a boring and dumb let down. Again you see ending coming from a mile away and really it just bugs and annoys me because it's not a twist its just a boring cliche that turns me away. Like this game made me feel like hey you finally get to play as the bad girl and be the bug evil but then if you have common knowledge and can piece together that the Owl girl is onto you, then it just really turns you away. God That ending is just making me go crazy with how much i don't like it😑 Literally stopped the first time playing it to paint my nails. So can we get a possible bad end where we ignore her calling us over and actually go through with plan?🥺 Please?🥺 Pretty please?🥺 Let me be the bad girl instead of losing to a character that literally isn't even scary or even bad girl🥺😒 She Cleary isn't heartless because she clearly cares about her friends if she doesn't want any of our kind at the school. Anyway i apologize as i really do love your games and love your story telling in others, but this game just isn't good because there's only one ending and it such a let down for girls like me who just want to be the evil for once😅🤣 Also apologize if anything is spelled wrong or worded wrongly as English is not my language but i am taking the time and effort to learn😝✌️ Please don't hate me dev i am a fan just not fan of this game🤣🥺
what the hell are you talking about
Spoiler for the game. It not hard to understand is it? I know my English is not the best but i did explain very simple 🤔
i knocked this game out in like 4 hours. i came for the art, and stayed for the characters! idk if this game is canon or some sort of au, but I'm loving it!
3/5, would've been 5/5 if the ending was more interesting then "Rocks fall, you die."
Facts the ending was kind of bad for me like i seen it coming and the fact that its the only ending really turns me away from it because its not a interesting end its just ugh😒
SPOILERS
So im on the night before the dance an im actually so shocked??? Why am i suddenly starting to want to break everyones hearts!? I was genuinely hoping i would get to ask one of them out to the dance instead of twyla in the end but now i have to eat them? WHAT IS GOING ON!!>!!!>!? I really liked all the chracters especially mary and theo but not i have to hurt them sad sad :(((
just finished the game omg/? I didnt expect that at all. overall that was a great game i speant about 4 hours on it and i would say it was totally worth it!
THE ENDING SHOCKED ME SM OH MY GOF. I CANNOT STRESS HTHIS OUT ENOGUH