Hi again! Thanks for your comment, and for finishing the game! Since most of your comments are on Mer, I can't respond too much about it since I'm not the one who wrote Mer's route xD But I will pass on your comments to my writing partner. We really appreciate your comments so thank you again!
@january:
Hi! Thank you for playing our game and leaving a comment <3 We're glad to hear you enjoyed it, even though you're not a huge otome person haha.
Tbh, I'm quite surprised how many people are enjoying Mer's second ending. xDD Glad to know you also liked the ending!
Yeah, even though both Kumiho and I are otome fans, we also like it when there are friendship endings that aren't considered bad ends. Plus, the whole independent, don't need no man theme works very well with Princess Charming in this VN, so we have always decided since the beginning that there will be one ending that is friendship only yet ends on a happy note. xD I'm glad you enjoyed the ending.
We'll be re-doing the GUI for the expansion, but I will pass on that point of critique regarding the text color to our GUI artist. Thanks for pointing that out!
@clearlybeloved:
Hi! Thank you for playing and for commenting! We're happy to hear that you liked the game.
Yep, Nicholl route and more dragon scenes will be coming. They've been so popular among players, honestly, I'm really surprised xD
Thanks again for commenting!
@Lucid:
Hey there! Thank you for playing and leaving a comment! <3 Happy that you enjoyed the game.
;_; Your compliment about Princess Charming's character made us so happy haha. >< We had a lot of fun writing her, and we had hoped that the players would like her -- despite her flaws and cockiness. So thank you <3
Regarding your comments on Zel (wall of text ahead):
As for witch and dragon, the former does indeed appear in the expansion and the dragon will have a larger role to play as well. Sorry you were disappointed you didn't get to find out about the witch! ;; As I mentioned previously in a few comments, a lot of these unanswered questions are deliberate. Firstly, it's because with a limited amount of time to write a limited amount of scenes, we didn't want to detract from the quality by stuffing too much information and details into the story, turning it into infodump after infodump (e.g. Snow's stepmom, the witch in both Snow/Zel's route...etc.) Secondly, we wanted to give the readers incentive to replay Mer/Snow/Zel's new routes in the expansion, because they will only find out the full story in the actual expansion. Most players probably won't notice in the end, but there are actually tiny hints/details scattered in the current story that sets up for the final expansion that will tie everything together, hopefully. xD
Dragon also did not appear as much as most people wanted because more dragon time = less Zel time, which we felt would affect the romance between Zel and Charming, as out of all the princes, Zel is the shyest and most scared, so there needs to be more time for a romance to develop between the two as compared to the other princes. He has always intended to be an important character in Zel's route, but that won't show as much until the future expansion. But trust me, he will be much more important in the final game ;D
I passed on your compliments of Mer's route to Kumiho, and she says thanks!
;; Thank you for your compliment! We almost died writing x_x This version was originally only supposed to be 50k words LOL But there was just so much plot and details we wanted to include, and it pained me to even have to cut a few scenes I wanted to do from this version. In the end, it somehow turned out to be ~76k. I guess it was easier for us since we have two writers so we split the writing, but yeah, we almost died from writing so much LOL
(omgreally?) I'm not the person who selected the CC BGM for the game, so I didn't realize LOL I don't believeee anyone on the team has played Wadanohara before, but I'll ask again later to make sure. xD
Thank you! I hope you'll like Nicholl's route in the expansion and that we'll do him justice ;_; Thank you for your kind wishes, and all the compliments and helpful critique. <3