this game does so much with such a short wordcount. beautiful prose and dialogue, especially with snowy's dialogue. bringing out the killer em dash...
a depressing glimpse into a very real future. especially when the story gets into dani's headspace. it's scary how she interprets perfectly mundane statements in the workplace in the most bad-faith way possible, further isolating herself from genuine human connection in favor of escapism through the same kids cartoons, their gacha spinoffs — and of course, snowy.
and the ending was tough to go through too. watching dani crash out at snowy and break her — but seeing snowy do nothing but continue to affirm her... ah...
there's more i could say but i feel like a lot of the commenters here have covered those bases more thoroughly than i could. nonetheless, well done. this is a tightly-made little vn.