this is so cool. beautiful art, interesting story. very good job depicting eleanor's mind! i only wish there was more.. world needs more yuri like this
i played this game with my friends, and i was telling my fellow fujoshi friend that this game seemed like it was heavily influenced by yaoi. to see my guess correct in postmortem was really funny... i salute to you, fellow himejoshi-fujoshi.
This was such a great visual novel! The writing was so good, I felt so drawn into Eleanor's mind, I felt like I could really get a sense of why she was the way she was. Claire was incredible. Just, terrifying but also really fun. A really intense but very interesting read!
Such a polished and well done VN, especially for a first timer. Every character design told a story, even ones that showed up for like, two seconds. I love Claire's goofy ass so much, and the juxtaposition between her and Eleanor was sooo good. Very intense, esp the descriptions towards the end, but such an incredible little game.
there is a way to upload post-mortems to itchio itself but it feels weirdly hidden and every time i click on one it takes me to a weird scary page ive never seen before. so many boxes. so im just linking it here in the comments section. i am a grandma! thank ya sir.
This morning I read your postmortem and then played this and it inspired me to dump about 4400 words onto the page, about this, and the feelings you shared there, and a whole bunch of personal stuff I obviously don't need to get into here. I did particularly resonate with your feelings about thinking about oneself. I hope it gets easier for both of us.
I think one of the coolest things we can do with our art or even our self-expression is incite others to feel weird or strange or uncomfortable in a way that gets them/us to create ourselves, to try and figure out what it is that we're even feeling. And I'm glad I got to be on the receiving end of that. I hope to one day inspire that in others.
I'm thankful I got to play your game, I'm happy it inspired me to work on my own things, I'm eager to see what PANTHALASSA turns out to be, I'm hopeful that you are satisfied with this and that, and I pray that you find fulfillment in your creative pursuits and peace in a difficult time.
I want to start by saying, the self isolating spiral that Eleanor engages in, and then needs to be forced out of is such a familiar feeling to me. Her internal world is full of these really interesting extremes of idealistic and cynical, where she will briefly believe something fantastical and then over-correct too harshly, never really landing in any middle ground.
For the amount of words used, I felt there was no time wasted in this game, no excess words used that weren't making a point about the characters or the way they thought. Its a really engaging, well paced story that left me wondering at the end about the interiority of every other character and their motivations, because the main character could be so deeply incurious about them.
Thanks very much for publishing this, I think I'll be chewing on the themes you wrote about for a while.
Just, absolutely fascinating. Enamored with the characterizations of Eleanor and Claire, and how well they were presented. Specially how frantic yet somber Eleanor’s inner monologue is, like digging circles by pacing on sand.
And also oh my God the art!!! I love your style it elevated the story so much. It’s so good. No notes.
This game is amazing, and all the more impressive being a first time work. Your writing captures Eleanor's Anhedonia really well, along with the emotions that come up in the later scenes as well. I feel like it's a good subversion of the whole "Getting swept off your feet by a scary outlaw" trope in the best way possible. Keep up the good work! I really hope you make more games, seriously.
When I started playing this, I was talking to a friend of mine, and I told him about this fantasy I used to have, back when I was a lot less satisfied with myself.
In the fantasy, I would be driving home from work one day, and when I reached the turn to go to my apartment, I would just...not turn. I'd keep driving, and driving, and driving, in a straight line, as far as I could before I had to stop for something. And then when I was done with whatever that need was, I'd get right back on the road, and keep going, for as long as I could, as far as I could.
This game feels immensely weighted with the sort of emotions I was feeling when that sort of thing appealed to me. I felt like I was stuck in a dead end, that nothing around me was ever going to improve, and I would dream about taking one stupid step to just ruin everything and not look back.
And then somehow the game wound up encapsulating the exact same feelings that fantasy had been cradling all those years ago. It was astonishing how accurately it tapped into them; I think I have to go take a break now because of the intensity of them that it brought back up in me, actually.
i appreciate your concern but you have to remember everyone was asked to write a "Toxic Yuri Vn" so hopefully anyone that relates to the emotions in this work understands it's not an emotion to revel in! i made this work hoping to make people feel a little less evil and insane for having "bad feelings". it is a bit awesome to get my first "don't do this in real life" comment on a game though.
oh goodness,I'm glad it made you happy!! <3 Thank YOU for sharing this incredible work of art, I loved the storyline and the atmosphere (especially in the nsfw scene) too I promise, I just couldnt think straight after it. god i need claire.
I've never read toxic yuri, but I found myself... smiling whenever Claire was on screen. I wonder if this unlocked something in me.... Eleanor's commentary about other people had me staring at my hands and at myself in the mirror for a bit, as someone who's always wondering "Am I the boring one?" Great writing, and I loved the character's facial expressions. Very cool work!
I can’t believe this is a debut game. I immediately entered Eleanor’s worldview the second the game started. Her narration is intoxicating, and I’ve always liked games with this kind of somber atmosphere.
And the amount of CGs is pretty crazy. The art is so captivating. Unbelievable work.
Wonderful writing, keen eye for detail (both in words and art), and lots of interesting possible interpretations to dig into. A game that I think may terrify and tantalize the kind of people who hate their life but fear changing would shatter what small comforts they do have and require looking at themselves. (Speaking from experience.)
At times felt at ease from the familiarity of Eleanor's thought process, at times felt ill from Everything Happening All The Time, but at no point was I... bored. Haha.
I just finished this after your stream today. Wow! I was enthralled and lead along by Eleanor's characterization. I loved how the scene started with the baggy clothes mention, relatable to things I've known in my past. Felt that. Loved the art on Eleanor! I won't get too detailed with what i liked (you can ask me if that opinion at all matters) but i liked it :) you should totallllllly make more!
Eleanor is a great character. The neurotic conjuring of every possible (well, possible is a stretch) scenario, but the total lack of initiative to act on a single one of them... unless? :9 It's great.
Writing was visceral, color palette was evocative, art and design were clean and prompted the imagination. Nice job taking on some of the music, too. I really liked this!
woah... it's like two games in one and both of them are extremely good and stick in your brain for a long time. office mundanity is just as scary as murder, really
I just finished reading and I really loved this! It says a lot about me, but a lot of Eleanor's thoughts resonated with mine, particularly the feeling of not being a misanthrope but just finding People tiring.
That aside, I personally think the two of them are very cutely messed up together. I love the concept of violence and intimacy being mixed together, and the sex scene really scratches that itch for me. I think Milk Puzzle is a very strong contender. Good luck to you with the Game Jam!<3333
Oughh that was great... the aesthetics and atmosphere were on point (the dream sequence was especially striking). Really neat VN !! I'll think of it for a while truly
I feel like an intruder writing a comment for this game, but: Some of Eleanor's internal dialogue lines about loneliness and dealing with a work life that grows duller and duller by the day are going to stick with me for a while. I was not expecting that from a game jam game and I am not exactly sure what to make of it, but it does shows how good you are at conveying feeling.
Good luck with the jam, this is an impressive amount of work for a month and half game. This was really good, I think you have a shot.
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this shit just blew my mind. how is there not more like this bruh
i'm obsessed and madly in love with the little weasel that is eleanor... very fun vn!
fucking awesome
literally feels like a bomb was planted in my brain. that's a good thing. oh my god im going insane i loved this so much.
this is so cool. beautiful art, interesting story. very good job depicting eleanor's mind! i only wish there was more.. world needs more yuri like this
oh my god eleanor why did you turn her down at firstttttt OUTTA MY WAY GAYBOY I'M BOUTTA GET IT
Oh this was really lovely. Such a distinctive pair of weirdos. I'm rooting for them
i played this game with my friends, and i was telling my fellow fujoshi friend that this game seemed like it was heavily influenced by yaoi. to see my guess correct in postmortem was really funny... i salute to you, fellow himejoshi-fujoshi.
This was such a great visual novel! The writing was so good, I felt so drawn into Eleanor's mind, I felt like I could really get a sense of why she was the way she was. Claire was incredible. Just, terrifying but also really fun. A really intense but very interesting read!
Such a polished and well done VN, especially for a first timer. Every character design told a story, even ones that showed up for like, two seconds. I love Claire's goofy ass so much, and the juxtaposition between her and Eleanor was sooo good. Very intense, esp the descriptions towards the end, but such an incredible little game.
there is a way to upload post-mortems to itchio itself but it feels weirdly hidden and every time i click on one it takes me to a weird scary page ive never seen before. so many boxes. so im just linking it here in the comments section. i am a grandma! thank ya sir.
https://margozone.neocities.org/milkpuzzlelog
This morning I read your postmortem and then played this and it inspired me to dump about 4400 words onto the page, about this, and the feelings you shared there, and a whole bunch of personal stuff I obviously don't need to get into here. I did particularly resonate with your feelings about thinking about oneself. I hope it gets easier for both of us.
I think one of the coolest things we can do with our art or even our self-expression is incite others to feel weird or strange or uncomfortable in a way that gets them/us to create ourselves, to try and figure out what it is that we're even feeling. And I'm glad I got to be on the receiving end of that. I hope to one day inspire that in others.
I'm thankful I got to play your game, I'm happy it inspired me to work on my own things, I'm eager to see what PANTHALASSA turns out to be, I'm hopeful that you are satisfied with this and that, and I pray that you find fulfillment in your creative pursuits and peace in a difficult time.
I want to start by saying, the self isolating spiral that Eleanor engages in, and then needs to be forced out of is such a familiar feeling to me. Her internal world is full of these really interesting extremes of idealistic and cynical, where she will briefly believe something fantastical and then over-correct too harshly, never really landing in any middle ground.
For the amount of words used, I felt there was no time wasted in this game, no excess words used that weren't making a point about the characters or the way they thought. Its a really engaging, well paced story that left me wondering at the end about the interiority of every other character and their motivations, because the main character could be so deeply incurious about them.
Thanks very much for publishing this, I think I'll be chewing on the themes you wrote about for a while.
Just, absolutely fascinating. Enamored with the characterizations of Eleanor and Claire, and how well they were presented. Specially how frantic yet somber Eleanor’s inner monologue is, like digging circles by pacing on sand.
And also oh my God the art!!! I love your style it elevated the story so much. It’s so good. No notes.
It's bitter, intense, and gives me a feeling I can't put to words. It's been 6 years since a game last gave me this feeling. Thank you.
Romantic! (* ´‿` 人)ﾟ♡ °・
This game is amazing, and all the more impressive being a first time work. Your writing captures Eleanor's Anhedonia really well, along with the emotions that come up in the later scenes as well. I feel like it's a good subversion of the whole "Getting swept off your feet by a scary outlaw" trope in the best way possible. Keep up the good work! I really hope you make more games, seriously.
When I started playing this, I was talking to a friend of mine, and I told him about this fantasy I used to have, back when I was a lot less satisfied with myself.
In the fantasy, I would be driving home from work one day, and when I reached the turn to go to my apartment, I would just...not turn. I'd keep driving, and driving, and driving, in a straight line, as far as I could before I had to stop for something. And then when I was done with whatever that need was, I'd get right back on the road, and keep going, for as long as I could, as far as I could.
This game feels immensely weighted with the sort of emotions I was feeling when that sort of thing appealed to me. I felt like I was stuck in a dead end, that nothing around me was ever going to improve, and I would dream about taking one stupid step to just ruin everything and not look back.
And then somehow the game wound up encapsulating the exact same feelings that fantasy had been cradling all those years ago. It was astonishing how accurately it tapped into them; I think I have to go take a break now because of the intensity of them that it brought back up in me, actually.
Incredible work
i'm touched my game spoke to you in that way...thank you for sharing a personal part of yourself.
If you're reading this and you heavily relate to how Eleanor thinks, I hate to be the one to tell you, but you're probably a Vulnerable Narcissist.
You're not a bad person for it, but you should probably aspire to curb those ways of thinking.
i appreciate your concern but you have to remember everyone was asked to write a "Toxic Yuri Vn" so hopefully anyone that relates to the emotions in this work understands it's not an emotion to revel in! i made this work hoping to make people feel a little less evil and insane for having "bad feelings". it is a bit awesome to get my first "don't do this in real life" comment on a game though.
i need claire i need claire i need claie i need claire i need claire i need claire i need claire i need claire i n
its been my wildest fantasy for someone to feel this way about one of my characters so thank you
oh goodness,I'm glad it made you happy!! <3 Thank YOU for sharing this incredible work of art, I loved the storyline and the atmosphere (especially in the nsfw scene) too I promise, I just couldnt think straight after it. god i need claire.
It's great! It feels like you tried to make something that only you could make. Margo's world is quite fascinating...
I've never read toxic yuri, but I found myself... smiling whenever Claire was on screen. I wonder if this unlocked something in me.... Eleanor's commentary about other people had me staring at my hands and at myself in the mirror for a bit, as someone who's always wondering "Am I the boring one?" Great writing, and I loved the character's facial expressions. Very cool work!
I can’t believe this is a debut game. I immediately entered Eleanor’s worldview the second the game started. Her narration is intoxicating, and I’ve always liked games with this kind of somber atmosphere.
And the amount of CGs is pretty crazy. The art is so captivating. Unbelievable work.
Wonderful writing, keen eye for detail (both in words and art), and lots of interesting possible interpretations to dig into. A game that I think may terrify and tantalize the kind of people who hate their life but fear changing would shatter what small comforts they do have and require looking at themselves. (Speaking from experience.)
At times felt at ease from the familiarity of Eleanor's thought process, at times felt ill from Everything Happening All The Time, but at no point was I... bored. Haha.
A game that will stick with me for a long time.
This was fantastic, I really enjoyed it. You have a great talent as a writer and an artist.
I just finished this after your stream today. Wow! I was enthralled and lead along by Eleanor's characterization. I loved how the scene started with the baggy clothes mention, relatable to things I've known in my past. Felt that. Loved the art on Eleanor! I won't get too detailed with what i liked (you can ask me if that opinion at all matters) but i liked it :) you should totallllllly make more!
Eleanor is a great character. The neurotic conjuring of every possible (well, possible is a stretch) scenario, but the total lack of initiative to act on a single one of them... unless? :9 It's great.
Writing was visceral, color palette was evocative, art and design were clean and prompted the imagination. Nice job taking on some of the music, too. I really liked this!
woah... it's like two games in one and both of them are extremely good and stick in your brain for a long time. office mundanity is just as scary as murder, really
Wao… romantic!
I just finished reading and I really loved this! It says a lot about me, but a lot of Eleanor's thoughts resonated with mine, particularly the feeling of not being a misanthrope but just finding People tiring.
That aside, I personally think the two of them are very cutely messed up together. I love the concept of violence and intimacy being mixed together, and the sex scene really scratches that itch for me. I think Milk Puzzle is a very strong contender. Good luck to you with the Game Jam!<3333
a knot formed in the pit of my stomach from the very start of the game and i was unable to look away for the entire duration
Oughh that was great... the aesthetics and atmosphere were on point (the dream sequence was especially striking). Really neat VN !! I'll think of it for a while truly
awesome violence and awesome sex. it briefly made me feel ill and the aesthetics went hard. quality stuff.
I feel like an intruder writing a comment for this game, but: Some of Eleanor's internal dialogue lines about loneliness and dealing with a work life that grows duller and duller by the day are going to stick with me for a while. I was not expecting that from a game jam game and I am not exactly sure what to make of it, but it does shows how good you are at conveying feeling.
Good luck with the jam, this is an impressive amount of work for a month and half game. This was really good, I think you have a shot.
That was super good!! While it's not the kind of story i'd usually indulge in, I ended up enjoying it a bunch.
It's really able to put you in the shoes of eleanor and be in that reality for a bit, great job
literally so good
i really liked all the art and character designs, love when fucked up girlies find each other <3