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William and Shirley love each other with all their heart and have been going strong for quite some time, but one misunderstanding later and an irreversible tragedy occurs. Even after this, will their love stand the test of time? Credits:
Writing by CheeryMoya and Mink
Art
Philip and Taffy Sprites by Anna
William and Shirley Sprites by Tokudaya
Main Menu by Roiya
Chibis by untramen
Textbox and GUI by Sweet
Backgrounds by Auro-Cyanide
Custom Transition by "Hanagasa of Otohime" circle
Logo by iiStarCandy
Music
Sneeuwland by Oskar Schuster
Super Love by Macroform
Love Feeling by Yuki Toshi
Car Crash sfx by freeSFX.co.uk
Shaking Off The Rust by Jared C. Balogh

There story was so touching.. I cried (;

Anyway, this is good stuff; I just wish it were a bit more engaging.

Now that you say that, I just thought it could've been made to be like a quiz game type thing. But Moya's the programmer, so that'd be up to her. 8D

Also I'm on a dying laptop, so questions/comments best go to Moya, to be safe. >_>

This game looks so interesting,I'm downloading it and will give my review when I play it!

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what can I say? I am trollolllolllo-ed
(to be honest, I was expecting heartbreaking korean drama.)
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Well, awesome art and music though. and the plot was interesting enough on its own. ( nothing like a good literary discussion...-_-)
Look forward to your upcoming works

It looks good, but I don't want to be depressed!

Don't you know the proper protocol for this stuff is to smack the reader with it when they least expect it?

Well, maybe I'll give it a whirl. What's the estimated play time or word count?

@wonderland: Thanks for playing and enjoying the game! I'm glad you liked the characters, I made sure to pick up CC/Public Domain stuff that looked good. The script for the story was written about a year ago and if I was going to get it off the shelf, I was gonna at least make it look nice. @Carrogath: Thank you for the lengthy review! @Amiralo: Can you put that in spoilers? Sorry if you were expecting something else but we were targeting a certain audience, like Carrogath had guessed. Ironically, the group that would enjoy this game might not even check this thread because of the title.

@Blue Lemma: It's a very short game, it's not even 2K words according to the Lint report. That probably excludes the screens though, IDK how Lint picks up word count. You won't be sad for too long or at all in the first place if I can gleam what kind of personality you have over the internet Mink told me that she'd love to see the story extended so if there's enough interest, I could. The initial tragedy would just happen very early.

BTW, if you're like me and laugh whenever someone accidentally leaves the .rpy files open, this time it's intentional. I commented the script.rpy a lot so others could look at it, seeing as to how I used this for coding practice. For a short game I want to say it's pretty polished so you might benefit from looking at the source code.
Also, does anyone want to try their hand at catching all the references? There's some songs, a Shakespearean one, You'd get bragging rights :V

Just finished reading this.

It was a pretty short and sweet story. The characters' input was funny and engaging, and while their analysis was a bit boring it was a sweet read. The book was clearly exaggerating, so the analysis also seemed a bit too... serious. It would've been better if they had did an analysis of a not-so-good book rather than a terrible book.

The title screen art was really gorgous. The commentary on the book was also a bit hard to read, and during the analysis, when the character sprites changed, it was really jarring to have the whole textbox suddenly disappear with the words. It would've been better if it had stayed.

Overall, it was a nice game for a short read, and it was pretty unique. There wasn't anything special about it, but I don't think that was your intention anyway. Congratulations on this random release.

RunicV wrote:The commentary on the book was also a bit hard to read, and during the analysis, when the character sprites changed, it was really jarring to have the whole textbox suddenly disappear with the words. It would've been better if it had stayed.

I learned that using with dissolve on expression changes looked far nicer than without so I was applying that to all the images. It's Ren'Py default that the textbox disappears entirely but I made it so the image of it remains. Doesn't help the text though. Believe me, I tried to find a way to use ATL to amend this but eventually I gave up since it's a minor thing that only applies to NVL mode.

Overall, it was a nice game for a short read, and it was pretty unique. There wasn't anything special about it, but I don't think that was your intention anyway. Congratulations on this random release.

It's based off another story but I guess that one's faded into obscurity :c I actually made one blog post about this project before but it was too small for a WIP thread. This certainly isn't my first game, either way.

In other news, Version 1.1 is out. Gets rid of that annoying disappering-NVL-box deal and has the new logo done by iiStarCandy. Nothing major that you need to download again. There's also the Webstory Engine port which I used as practice to get used to the engine. You can play that here.

I could of sworn ive read a similar story like the web version from spam on facebook. It made me download the full game though so good job.

This KN really caught my eyes and was really looking forward to playing it! Sadly it didn't work on my laptop just came up with a blank black screen :/

Downloaded the game, and I must say, I loved it!
My only complaint is that it wasn't longer. I would of loved to know what would of happened further ^.-

Okay, I thought this game was really cute! xD

I really liked the comments that Taffy and Phil kept making, especially the comments toward the end of the "story" All in all, I thought that it was very amusing. I also agreed with Phil during most of the VN.

I laughed so much during this