The amount of polish in this short VN is INSANE. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING—from the game page, writing, UI, music, art, and VO—are tied together in a beautiful harmony. Even with just one sprite and one background, I'm amazed that Ing managed to cleverly use every element of the game to capture your attention from start to finish.

If this is what Ing could make in a 10 days jam, I can't imagine all the love and passion she poured for her main project; Of Sense and Soul.  

i am totally sold on of sense and soul after this! the amount of polish here is insane, and you guys did an amazing job at using the limitations in your favour versus bumping up against them. 

the use of a spinning background alone was a great workaround for the cg limitation, but combining it with the darkening/lightening and panning in and out of the graphic as well, it just elevates the visual storytelling done here into such a new level, bravo to ingthing for melting all of it together so seamlessly! it honestly feels theatrical in presentation, and i loved every minute of it.

max's voice is perfect for hugo, and they really do a great job of conveying the emotion that drips off of every one of hugo's lines. he seems like a real tender hearted softie, and i find it really endearing, especially when he talks about seamus. (i get such a kick out of imagining them as having met on victorian craigslist.)

and the writing too! i've always been particularly enamoured with stories set in a victorian setting, so i'm no stranger to the particular way you have to write those stories for them to not sound "off", but that's not at all an issue for ingthing it seems. the tone and vocabulary used are amazingly well done.

seriously just a GORGEOUS little game in every way, from script to visuals to audio, absolutely incredible. 🤎

what a beautiful story!!!! The writing and feel of the game is so heartwarming and eloquent!!! The softness of the art accompanied with the transitions and voice acting... I also love how clean the UI is!! I can just feel the love pouring out from this it made me so happy to play through 

the voice acting in this novel is so good!!! and the UI is so pretty, too!!! The art is so great as well... and I liked the usage of "seeing the forest for the trees" as a positive thing, I haven't heard the phrase used like that before but it worked so well! and also the typewriter noises in the UI are so fun hehe. This was also SO SWEET, I'm so happy for Hugo...!!! and what a great usage of the ugly duckling fairytale too... just so many good and fun things in this game I am struggling to list them in order hahaha. Wonderful stuff!!!! Extremely well executed!!

What a wonderful experience, it truly felt like the epic ending monologue of a stage play, with how the contrast and the background is used, I adored it!

Lovely work! Really enjoyed the use of contrast and a rotating background to make the most of the O2A2 limitations. Max did a wonderful job voicing Hugo, as always. Can't wait to see the full game and what lies in store for our "queer little ducklings" :^ )

!!! OMGGGG this is so PRETTY! Everything about it is gorgeous! I'm especially in love with how you used the background and Hugo's sprite -- Zooming in and out -- it's very dynamic! It feels like I'm watching a movie. The music and voice-acting is beautiful as well! It really brings everything together! What a wonderful experience~

Now THIS is my cup of tea.

Hi! I played the game and first and foremost: THE REALISATION??? It was MAGNIFICENT! How the writing, the GUI, the sprite art, the music, the background art, the voice-acting would come together as a single piece of art, wow!!!!

To give more precise details: of course, the artstyle is gorgeous! The details, the expressions, aaah! And also, the rotating background was a very original touch (and a relevant one: time is an endless loop, after all, in the great scheme of millenias).

The music was amazing too! It really fit the game and plunged me gently into the story. Also, can I say how much I LOVED the voice-acting? The emotions, the hope!!!!! This was so hopeful!!!! I really loved Max's portrayal of Hugo Brooks.

And regarding what I felt... Nostalgia, of course, but I'd mostly say: warmth. The warm of feeling confident through love; not because we need love to feel confident, but because our lover has showed us we deserve to be seen through his eyes, whether or not he's here. That was wonderful! Really, a soft and warm parenthesis of pure exaltation from love, and how significant it is, despite it being a detail in the history of humanity!

In the end, it really was a very sweet, enchanting, polished and poetic experience (and I NEVER use the word "poetic" lightly)! Thank you!