Blue Moon Lament

Holy crap-- Your monster designs are simply gorgeous and stunning! Yet also rather unsettling at the same time! Aesthetic horror at its finest, imo~ My fave is uh... Pinkie's 👀👌🏻💞 ( Trying not to spoil thigs agshkdkd-- )

Love the char designs as well! And those relics, dang-- I thought they were like guardian angel-type things with how colorful they are, but-- NOOOOOPE!! 😂😭🙏🏻💦

As for the story, it, ofc, feels a bit rushed due to it being a jam game, but otherwise~ I still had a good time with it. The characters are lovable and I ship who the story wants me to ship, however subtle ( ;D ). The ending is super intriguing and def makes me wanna read more!! ( COME ON THAT CANT BE THE END SHDHJDLF-- )

Although, I do have to admit that the NVL writing style suffers in the box of ADV style. I had a hard time figuring out who's talking at times due to the lack of name boxes. But most of all because; ADV having programmed me to think the one talking is the one shown nearest the text agshdjjd-- So. My head hurt a little because I had to essentially reprogram how I read in this style.

This issue should be fixed once you switch to the NVL style you showed tho, so all good ^v^)b 

All in all~ Whilst I agree with you that this is quite flawed ( yes, I have more crits and suggestions ( occupational hazard hh ) but I don't wanna seem like a jackass so sksks-- ), it's pretty good for a first release! You should be proud! And I definitely can't wait to read more of your writing! Next time, in the style where it will truly shine 😁👌🏻💞

Much love,

Nameless L.W. of WingedHares

OMG I have so much to say about this LOL This was definitely a ride holy cow! I love how at the beginning it was almost kinda... slice-of-lifey. Sure, there was a bit of mystery and intrigue because of the disappearences, but for the most part, we were able to just kind of live with Vidal for a while and get to know him and the other chars, which was really great, as it made the ending hit that much harder.

(Apologies slightly if my thoughts are all over the place afkjsdlafds)

The designs of all the chars—they are absolutely lovely. Really enjoyed seeing them in both their "normal" and lamenter forms and seeing both the similarities and differences between the two. And their relics were so much fun! Loved the different designs for them and especially how they're always just kinda there bouncing around in the background. It gives a lot of movement to the scenes! Sprites in general were just gorgeous, from the soft coloring and highlights to the rainbow gradients... GUH.

If I had to choose a fav from all of them it would have to be Michi—there was something so adorable about him and he was just so sweet and plucky. Then probably Abby. His relationship with Vidal was so beautifully done! I liked how it was subtle but definitely very much THERE and so it just felt very natural, especially given how long they've been friends for. They just played off of each other so well! And the clocktower scene was so sweet—that CG HHHHHH. ABSOLUTE LOVE.

The animations were a lot of fun and kept things really engaging throughout! I especially loved whenever Vidal had his wings out and would do the little floating-up-and-down bit. Writing was lovely. The worldbuilding! I especially loved all the little bits you added in about some of the other lamenters. It made the story feel really big and like this was just a little snapshot of the whole lamenter world with these four. Beautiful backgrounds! Love how soft and warm they were. The sprites looked gorgeous on top of them and everything blended really nicely together.

Fav CG has to be that summer one in the middle with them all at the beach. I paused a moment just to look at it for a while because it was so cute!

AND THEN GUH. As soon as the tension and horror bits started to creep in... dang. It was so well done! The building tension along with those music choices really made the hair on the back of my neck start to stand up, especially when Vidal was being stalked. AND THEN THE FREAKING MIST CREATURES OMG THEY ARE LITERALLY SO CREEPY. Especially Irise's one wtf??? With the neck??? I'm definitely going to have nightmares from these I think HAHAHA. Abby's transformation sequence was especially well done and creeped me out so much. Flashback to all the creepy monster transformations in anime that I've watched that I've never been able to completely erase from my mind LOL

Overall just super well done and a great story that really ramped up at the end and left me wanting more. Like I wanna know what's happening now?? What's going to happen to them? What even really ARE they? I have so many questions.

Highly recommended!!

(Small note—I needed to create a "base" folder for the main font in order to start up the game, I'm not sure why? It popped up an error saying the font wasn't there. I got it to work though and after that no errors at all!!)