Myosotis

This game is technically, visually and musically excellent. The resources used — Elegant GUI, the Inline Tooltips, the Shaders, etc — are all not haphazardly thrown together but thoughtfully and elegantly deployed with an obvious measure of confidence and competence. The background images are kind of generic for the medium, but have been sufficiently stylized to match the intended character of the VN.

(I also immensely appreciate all the QoL, the 'this action will have consequences'-style the pop-up notifications, cluing the player into the anger–reason axis that affects the ending. This was made with a lot of consideration for UX and that means a lot. I don't like having to dig into a VN's scripts to figure out what I should be doing.)

The soundtrack is a banger, becoming intense when it needs to be, but most of the time it needs to be elegiac, because this is an extremely elegiac game. With how polished these tracks are, I honestly can't believe these were all finished up in a month! I thought before double-checking that these songs were another free resource. The murder scene in particular has a great beat. The scripting is also technically proficient, making the most out of a little to keep the screen busy and maintain appropriate emotional timbre.

The script is also really well-polished — almost immaculately edited, which is rarer for a VN than it should be, and I can tell it was written by someone who loves language. As for the writing itself, this is directed at the devs and not other prospective players so I'll put this behind spoilers:

The central conceit of this story rules. Haunting your murderer is a fun idea! A cute murder mystery/love story between the real Ethan and the MC as ghosts is a really cute idea, and I love the notion that, by getting to ask out the MC in the Justice ending, Ethan might cross over? Whereas the MC in the Revenge ending will always walk the earth, tethered by her now-unresolvable regrets (I'm just gonna use female pronouns here because I was a female playing the game). And the twist was great! I understood at the end why Jude and Ethan's designs closely resembled each other, which had been shaping up to be a criticism.

Where I ended up feeling unfulfilled a little was feeling the narrative led me down a garden path with Jude. Now: I can understand that Jude coveted Ethan's life and perception of academic excellence and murdered him for it, and then murdered the MC because she got too close to evidence of Jude's crimes. But there's some ostensible red herrings with Ethan having "discovered more about Ashenville than was taught in school" that don't seem to go anywhere, and other school IDs besides his own and Ethan's that Jude is noted to have stashed away in the morgue. Other victims?

It feels to me almost like more world-building had been composed for the narrative than the narrative actually needed, and so most of it was cut, but there's certain vestiges retained in the story? But altogether it just feels like Jude's final motivations are much too petty for how he was characterized throughout, and how guilt-ridden and emotionally traumatized he seems to be over the actions he committed. 

(For context: I had theorized while playing that Jude was being menaced by some demonic entity, and had been forced to kill people as blood sacrifices to said entity, similar to something in the old indie comic Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and that he was seeing that demon-thing behind the MC and Ethan.)

I also just, like... don't know why Jude can see ghosts at all. Shouldn't he, like... not be able to do that? It's something that's not really explored by the narrative and maybe "less is more" is the right authorial attitude here but I would have liked to know more about this. Does murdering someone in this universe just make you perpetually able to see their ghosts? Is Jude some kind of medium, and is this why he's crazy? There's a lot here, and I would have liked seeing it addressed.

Some other quibbles:

• The sting that plays in the title screen is very nice, but I wish there was a longer, looping track, because reading the "About" page in silence is weird.

• I would have liked a Sound Test to sample all the tracks without having to dig through the game's directory, because these songs really are that good.

• The forest path is intuitive enough once you try all options, but left me feeling like I should have been able to know the correct route before getting there.

Anyway! It's a great time and you all should be proud. Thank you for making this!

Nice visual novel.

amazing

The game wouldve sent shivers down my spine if not for the bomb ass soundtrack, i need it on spotify. The two endings were perfect, but i wish we (SPOILER WARNING FROM HEREEE) got the motivations on why jude murdered the mc, ethan, and possibly others.

AHHHH MY GODDD!!!! I JUST GOT THE FIRST ENDING FINALLYYTYYYY!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I  LOVE IT SOOOOO MUCCHHH, I THOUGHT THE GAME COULDN'T GET BETTER BUT THEN BOOMM!!!! THE EMOTIONS ARE STRONG!!!!!!!!!! THE WIRTIGN IS GREAT!!!! MY GOODNESS NEVER STOP!!!! MAKE A SEQUEL PLSSSSS!!!!!

OHHH MY LORDD I GOT THEFIRST ENDING (shoutout to the person who told me  how)  AND THAT WAS SO HEARTBREAKINGG BUT ALSO HEARTWARMING. I WAS TERRIFIED THE ENTIRETIME.

wow... just wow, this is a masterpiece 

The art style is so good oh my gosh !!! 
Doe is super cute too, this game was so cool?!

I absolutely LOVE this game so much! Everything about it is stunning. The art, the story, the plot, it's all so beautifully done. The characters are written so well, (I LOVE DOE SO MUCHH). Both endings were amazing, but the first one really got to me (I teared up a bit, not even sure why) I honestly can’t put into words how beautiful this game is. I’m really grateful to the team behind this. You created something truly special, and I hope it gets all the recognition it deserves!

is there a playlist for the soundtrack? i love it so much!

I love this game I played it with on call and we enjoyed it a lot we just wondered what gender is the person we play as. Overall this is an amazing game and I hope it gets popular.

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OMGGG THIS WAS SOOO GOOD!!!!

I loved the story sooooo much and the twist omg was so good defo wasn't expecting it and I loved Doe and mc's dynamic. Two things I wish that they also discover mc body and the other is I could go back and play this for the first time again. I can't put into words how much I love this game!!!!!!

this was SO GOOD. whatatwist!! my surprise was very audible

Man I just went through something... the first ending was so so beautiful, it's the true ending in my heart although I do have to ask do the both of them disappear at the same time and what happens to mc's friend, do they discover her body?

My only regret was I wished it had a scene discovering female leads body too, i also wanted to ask how'd doe know (no spoilers for now hehe) where'd the id was, did he follow him after his death but then why'd he forget it, trauma? but the mc still remembered (guess she was built different...)

and the twist OMG I did NOT expect THAT, I thought that the plot would be more of twin siblings type but damn that went in a completely different direction....

Also I wish we were shown doe's friend by some hints since we only knew him as the lurker, doe remembered college but he didn't remember his friend...

Overall, great game, ahhhh I wish I could see or read some after story fluff  of ending 1(wink wink nudge nudge(not to impose too much tho))

Anyways, thank you for this beautiful game ᵔᴗᵔ Hope you don't mind the rambling too much :3

(Ironically the game also lessened my anger heh)

This was great!  Loved both endings!

SO AWESOME WHAT THE HECKK

THE ART IS SO PRETTY 

The fact that I love Forget Me Not flowers so much that I immediately remembered and knew that Myosotis is its scientific name ^v^; I look forward to playing this!! :)