Laniessa wrote:Just finished this last night! I found myself hoping that there was an auto-button, but I couldn't seem to find it. Sometimes the dialogue confused me, in the sense of who was saying what, but it was clear enough!
Overall, though, I quite enjoyed it! I liked the music quite a lot, too. (If I'm going to be honest, the ending surprised me a lot, haha.)
Ah, I'm sorry! Whilst fiddling around with the GUI, I completely neglected to put in the auto button... And I'm not even sure if it has an option to properly skip through the text, either... It's an especially odd oversight, since I usually read VNs with the auto option on, because I find constantly clicking through text to be a pain.
It was hard trying to write without using the typical character tags that are usually found in VNs, and doing everything NVL as opposed to ADV... I'm glad it wasn't too confusing! n_n
philip wrote:Just downloaded this story and played through it. The story resonated with me almost immediately; brought back memories of my mother's funeral, presided over by a junior reverend, who didn't know her, had never met her, and went on and on about how wonderful she was, all the while calling her by the wrong name. I remember how upset I was at that time, but apparently that sort of thing happens quite often to others, as well.
The story was quite interesting, if ultimately gloomy; I did not see the eventual end coming until I was almost at the end of the story. Well done, although I would have been much happier, if in the end it had turned out to be all peaches and cream. That's not a criticism of your story, just an expression of my persona.
I had similar experiences with my great uncle's funeral, too. The priest kept getting his name wrong, all the time, and he'd also obviously never met him before and didn't know anything about him. My family got pretty upset about it. I imagine it's not that uncommon...
From the start of writing it, I thought I wanted to make a very gloomy story - not necesarily one that would upset people or make them cry, but one that would feel very hollow and empty. Most of the stories I write usually tend to be very silly and cheerful, with lots of anime-eque characters and dumb jokes, so I wanted to try and write something more downbeat. The fact I am good friends with some very, very angst-ridden and mentally unstable people, who talk to me quite a lot, for very long periods of time, about how awful they feel, was quite a big inspiration for this as well.
