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It's an extremely good sign when I'm already laughing 30 seconds into the game lmaoooooo; in the tutorial, even?? No better way to make things accessible than removing high pitched sounds and replacing it with. That.
The pixel artstyle is really lovely! It gives a consistency to the different artstyles (I can recognize Nox's art a mile away at this point, haha) but the overall hues and shading leaning toward purple or otherwise cool colours gives it a very harmonious look. The warmer greens stand out, but it's a nice touch! It gives Amber and the Queen's Butterfly a sort of distinction from everyone else. Also, I really like how Amber's mask has expressions. Cute...
I like how the story subverts some tropes and plays some straight. I briefly expected Liam to be the other thief given his sudden schedule change, but nope! In any case, it took a bit of wheel scrolling to look for what made changes to the narrative and what was, effectively, just extra flavour text, but it was a fun romp.
I only caught one of the references, but like. Darkest Dungeon my beloved
ALSO QTE MATH IS EVIL. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (cry-laughed at it, so, good job, it genuinely threw me off).