I played the game in several sessions, so I kept writing down some thoughts about the story as I went. Up until the first meat challenge, here’s what I had written down:
The idea of using the villain, especially his voice, as the narrator isn’t a lack of characters at all. It’s a gamble with the audience, and it really pays off. Genius naming choice! Every family member has a name starting with R, and they sound so damn good in Chef Vordalak’s voice. A mother telling her kid that once they turn 18, they can decide whether they want to shit in the street is exactly the kind of humor that makes this game worth playing :)) And there are way too many other jokes to mention them all. To put it in Chef Vordalak’s words, but with a little twist: tell stories with humor, humor is what makes a visual novel good. That chef is cynical as hell after the first test, but once I heard about the meat challenge I started getting genuinely worried about where the story was going.
Once I realized what had happened to the dog, I just played on to finish the story. It was way too horrifying and shocking for me. By the end, I honestly don’t even know what to say. But seriously, for all the work you put into this, this is genuinely a horror story...