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oh how joyous. how silly. my day has been made

I managed to get the true ending on my first try even though I get the feeling you're supposed to play it over and over again, and I really feel like making the wrong choices and trying again and again might've added to the experience.  It was really fun! It was cool trying to piece together what's up with the main character as the story went on, and even cooler how in the end you find that yes, your feelings are real but not your reality. They didn't trust the maid at first but :]] I really like the sort of duality used for the knife, how the way you perceive things and use them really does change it's meaning. Really neat! I might play again just to see the other endings

waahh i love this game! The clear style, the presentation, the art, the characters- it's all so fun. You can feel the love seeping through every little detail. The fact that game mechanics push the player to become MORE immersed like buying stuff with a budget is so smart and fun. I ended up doing a bunch of little silly things for these characters and audibly reacting to stuff. Like I bought a strawberry drink for C and got disappointed she didn't drink it and yelled at myself for not saving an orange when sho started dancing. It's absolutely amazing how quickly I fell in love with these characters and I can't even pinpoint how exactly it was done but I loved every second of it.
aughhaghdhg the story- its been a while since I've played but the demo ending is still fresh on my mind, it was relatable and the sort of bittersweetness people can't help but try to smile through GRGRG the way B's mental illness is written is such a breath of fresh air and something I find so accurate in its subtly of lifestyle. The game shows you how many times she's cooked ramen in the past and that's so cool like I paused and just looked at it for a little bit like WOW THE PPL BEHIND THIS ARE SO COOL its never woe is me I'm so depressed I hate myself I hate everything it's just. numbness and exhaustion. And I really appreciate that. The self pitying depiction of mental illness is a drag to go through and doesn't feel realistic to me at all I relate to B a crazy amount with the way she goes through her days, it feels very genuine ykwim? I don't want to write a whole essay about how lovely I find this game so I'll just cut it short here even though I want to praise this game to the moon and back, I can't wait to see what the final game will be like.

for me the pg up and pg down buttons worked but not the arrow keys, I figured it out completely on accident since they're so close together but hopefully that helps u figure things out

if you scroll down in the comments a little someone said the ending for eaten where u pull out the CD w/o drugging it is different from feeding it something other than cake, in the guide it says or but for the secret ending you need to do both ! :]

its the second choice option where he asks if he can have a light i think

Theres this bug where if I interact w the coworker by touching the no smoking sign after I already died from that ending the game freezes, particularly after the protagonist says "I need to find some other way to convince him to let me borrow it" or something along those lines, it's a little frustrating because I'm trying to find a way right after that interaction but have to restart the game. I keep talking to him because I'm trying to see if a different dialogue path gives me any clues but I forget what I've already said so :/

Other than that though I'm really digging it! the art the aesthetic the music, its all very solid! I like it a lot :P looking forward to completing the game since I'm in the middle of playing rn lol its very stress/dread inducing in the good way, like the incorporation of timers. Ever since I was a kid timers in ANY game stressed me out so to see it used in a horror game fills me with even more anxiousness, very cool :]