The Perfect Human

Does anyone else ever just hate-fuck nasty style an idol who's practically an image of your younger self and who's trying to drag you back into the past that haunts you day and night?  No?

The visual presentation in this VN is simply stupendous from start to finish!  I loved the creativity and variety with it, with how the display ranged everywhere from comic-style bubbles to IM clients to simple textboxes that quickly became a part of the scenery proper, heheheh~  I also quite enjoyed how everything came together in the end: For as much as she might try to deny it, Seolyeong is no less hungry than Amarys is, and is desperate for the flair and passion of her past to come roaring back to consume her~

Great work!

P.S.: I was caught completely off-guard when Ascension started playing, lol

a gorgeous game <3 i know i already mentioned, but i knew so very little about idol culture before i started reading, and it was still really accessible and engaging in that regard.  and now i feel like i've learned something. all idol-fan relationships are like this, probably ;)

here's my fan art, which you've already seen. i thought i would post it in your comments as well, for when the jam server goes away. 

they were fun to draw. but difficult! very difficult

pretty

Everything from the writing prose to the visuals to the music is so gorgeous. I've been an avid kpop fan for a long time, so I could empthasize with Amarys and Seolyeong's feelings about what being an idol means to them and the immense internal and external pressure that they face.  I think the motif of the ribbons was a really fun touch as it represents the entanglement that the two have with each other.  I have a bunch of other jumbled thoughts, but in short this was such a beautiful game, I really enjoyed it!

Beautiful, raw, captivating. The presentation is amazing with all the little unique touches for each scene, and the prose is like a fist around your heart.  I loved the use of colour, and the noodles scene was particularly memorable with the way Amarys' bowl empties like a ticking clock. I love, love, love yuri where women are obsessed with each other in extremely unhealthy ways, and the setup of idol/ex-idol rather than the more one-sided idol/fan made the parasociality here deliciously twisted.

(I do agree with a previous comment that the all-caps font can be a little hard to read, but that's my only real criticism)

This was great. Idols with toxic yuri relationship dynamics? Count me in! Each scene also feels great since they have different, unique presentation elements that specify the mood and tone. I really liked the attention to detail.

But as much as I love the game, I think the game does suffer from some accessibility issues. I find the font choice for narration and dialog tough to read as this is a rather long game and I don’t find reading an all-caps font comfortable. It’s hard for me to parse letters and words after a certain point. The font size is also really small, and because the game uses specialized screen layouts, the usual scaling up font size found in Ren’Py’s accessibility window doesn’t work. Things just break, of course.

So, I ended up dealing with the default font size, and the game made me squint a bit too much. Which is a shame because I really love the aesthetic of the game, the characters’ relationship with each other and idols, and the many original assets to ground the game even more. I would love this game even more if the game was more readable for me.

This was still a good game, even if I admit it caused me some eyestrain. I would like more people to play this game if people can handle the small font size. It’s got a unique vibe that I really adore.