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First of all, this game is huge! It's amazing that you completed it in 72 hours, well done!!! 🥳

Your introduction to this game is GREAT! It could use a little proofreading, but it’s an absolutely glorious welcome to this world. My depression was like “someone understands!” and then my hopeful side agreed by the end, too.

I was a little confused about the “10 stats.” There’s no specification of what they are until two sections later (moving them up under the “10 stats” section would fix this entirely), or what’s a success or failure (which is also explained a few sections later), which becomes especially confusing when going from 30 points to allocate up to 100 as a possibility. After learning how you check for failure or success, I can definitely see why you might go for 100 (having 10 in each stat, +2 in your specialties, is still only 12 out of 100). And in that case, the 30 feels incredibly low (if you give yourself 5 HP and 5 soul points, that only leaves 20 across 8 more stats). With that said, I do love the idea of an RPG where failure is likely since you already died once, and using 100 vs 30 makes sense if you were a hero rather than an ordinary person.

I like your reliance on the d100 for randomizing a lot. I’m a huge fan of randomness in games, and it feels like that’d give some really wide swings where you can’t possibly know whether you can succeed or it’ll be super easy. I also like that, because you’re inhabiting a body, resting isn’t safe. Normally, it feels like resting is a cheat code to heal up and prepare, but here it can even be fatal!

Overall, this is an incredibly entry with fantastic narration! 🥳 

- ✨Beth