specs:
- mac mini m2, 32gb ram, 12 cores
- windows download, played via GameHub emulator

overall:
- beautiful visuals, atmosphere, and very creative use of 2/3D. well rounded with some minor visual/functional jank. would def continue/finish playing.

intro:
- the atmosphere and lore/story/worldbuilding were great, but despite it saying right click is the dialogue/text advance, the scroll button i accidentally hit immediately ended the intro. i appreciate the history factor to go back but this def needs a skip confirm and some tuning/re-factoring for the controls. even the actual FF button you know you're clicking on is instant-end w/o confirmation.

audio:
- LOVE the atmospheric ambience & the music. SFX could've been a bit more varied, only one i encountered was the menu click.

display/presentation:
- absolutely gorgeous artwork here. especially characters and setting, but the UI/menu/etc also deserves praise.

customization/accessibility:
- immediate huge plus here. a bunch of options for audio/visual/acessibility, how to play instructions with controls, settings
- mouse only interaction. makes sense for a visual novel, but since it uses a hyrbid control system i would def add the ability to nav with keyb as well.
- save system! big plus. esp auto save

gameplay:
- talking to sister clara crashed my window the first time, huge delay load second time i tried.
- some REALLY bad jank in the controls/visual load. i have a powerful computer but no matter what settings i was on, layers were constantly popping in and out. maybe due to the hybrid dimensional displays and FX and such, but it was really disruptive.
- interactivity with objects needs a little more scale and rendering/tuning. the backgrounds/environment were amazing but because everything is monochrome and there are no highlights on objects, i had no idea where i was supposed to go or what to do at points. i had to get basically on top of/inside of people/objects to get the E popup, and some things like the doors were not where they should've been (a building column was the "door" to )
- great systems in place: relationship, journal, schedule, map
- nice amount of interactivity in-world, where i could find it. a slight glow/highlight would be beneficial.

Oh my, wish I played this one sooner! I was totally led to believe that this is a pure visual novel based on description and screenshots, but oh boy was I mistaken.

I really like what you did here, making it exactly more than a standard click through dialog game. Adding actual environments, a map, even mechanics under the hood, is an amazing spin on this genre (which I tottally lack experience in, but only experienced some of it's worst, i guess).

Regardless, I was still a little overwhelmed by the amount of text, however not to the point that I'd quit, I actually managed to beat the whole game. I'm always craving and lacking, a sense of purpose, an overaching goal in these kind of games, I really to believe a player needs this, to make sure they know what the point of conversations is. I would try working on a sense of goal in this one too, as I wasn't sure where is all of that talk leading me. However I still liked the little intrigue, and the monster the protagonist was fighting with. 

Overall, you made a player that doesn't like visual novels finish your game, which is an incredible feat. Good job, and keep at it! 🫀

Nice idea, I like the holiness meter, it could be great to have more actions to affect it; I loved the art of the game and the atmosphere.  There is some room for improvement in the garden, I got confused at first about where to go but I figured it out.  Personally, I don’t support GenAI usage in any form (including code), but I appreciate the disclosure. Good job!

I’m not a fan of visual novels either, so I’m not really gonna talk about the gameplay. The visuals are beautiful and the art direction fits perfectly the tone of the story. The sound design is well made and feels organic. The writing is very good, and the only small downside is that sometimes it wasn’t easy for me to know which character was speaking, but it might be due to my lack of experience in the genre. Also, it could help to know ahead if a conversation is gonna make you move to the next moment of the day, but if it’s a design choice I respect that.