optimal conditions for a sacrifice

SO CUUUTE!!! Very short and if you want to get all the achievements it gets a little repetitive, but absolutely worth the money if you like cute girl and not so cute love stories <3 --- Spoilers/meta ig? --- Like I said, the story gets a bit repetitive when you go through and get the achievements, but I'm sure that wouldn't be too big of an issue if more people didn't get the puzzle right on the first try. It was kinda funny seeing the "true ending" be the one that most people had via steam achievements. Tbh because of its backwards nature I still feel like im missing something- I felt a little let down when I answered "none of the above" since "all of the above" wasn't present and would reduce the story to the scope laid out by the author instead of including personal interpretation: - Archfey and Sacrifice have same text color, they both doubt themselves and reveal their heart at the end: self love - The Archfey states that the love she desires comes from the feeling of receiving even when nothing is given: no sacrifices for love (a bit of a stretch since it did require sacrifices to get there, but not ongoing ones) - You literally need to offer your body parts to get to the "true end": sacrifices for love - The characters (and the Sacrifice, but self-referentially) routinely comment on the value of the Archfey's heart: value of love - The author mentions that this is a personal project, and as a game it is quite literally made for and directed at the player: author's personal message to someone - the author is rather hard on themselves, gives the player the option to call the game pretentious, and is dealing with very large topics based on personal experience: some poorly written, badly put together pretentious bs (though I don't think of the game this way it seems likely to be taken as such) As a story it was absolutely wonderful (ty comical mermaid, one of my favs ((which is all of them)) ), the art was fantastic (can I pls use the images in the files as a pfp, author??), but as a game it made me feel a little raggedy: no skip dialogue, no VA despite voice being one of the volume modifiers, fixed aspect ratio, and lots of areas for additional story (it did mention it was linear, though, so not mad about it at all!!). I would have loved to see the puzzle require consistent correct guesses since the characters have interesting dialogue when you get it right, but also it feels aimless to be on the path to success and be like "alr imma js press shi cause i wanna get to the end since i been thru allat alr." I also feel stuck in the way that I feel as if there's more, but the game quite directly told the player when there was more to discover or the answers to the puzzle, so it's hard to believe that there is more. If I prove myself wrong I'll comment!! --- I lowk got lost --- The author also brought up DDLC, so I went into the files, but didn't find too much of note aside from a weird .zip_ file (text doc??) and a file called "persistent" among the saves, but I couldn't quite figure that out I still feel like I'm missing something- I feel like I almost need to dig around in the .py files to see if I can unlock a "your back" answer cause I didn't find that in the game... If anyone knows pls comment because if there's more to this story I NEED to know, but if not I hope the author (and others) know that the story is fun to experience and I'm happy with what I have :3

Short and cute puzzle story :) A nice way to spend a night.

Very short game. The art is super pretty! Sometimes the writing feels a little ramble-y but there's charm in that too. I played this a while ago and just replayed to enjoy the yuri^^

[b] Не ожидала истории-метафоры про любовь в антураже волшебного леса, но мне очень понравилось, история приятно скрасила вечер :333 Дизайны персонажек залипабельные... Очень интересно мне было бы узнать их личности поглубже ТuТ Голову ломала какие аспекты, возможно влечения или той же любви, символизируют лесные богини, но мб я не догадалась просто! Арты очень красивые[/b]

I mean, who wouldn't want to sacrifice all their body parts for a yandere god? No? Just me? Ok then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ all the more for me!

What the ♥♥♥♥, am a fish!

a very short (almost 20 min for all endings) but cute visual novel :) concept is pretty simple, easy to follow along, with 3 different endings! I ended up getting the true ending first, but just enjoyed the art style while going through it! i recommend if you like women or sapphic stories and also fairytale-esque worlds, with a centaur, a naga, mermaid, and a fey