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Thank you for the in-depth review! I super appreciate your feedback, especially since it kind of shines a light on what I was concerned with writing the script: the heavy-handedness of the "Aro/ace people exist!"  message and the escalation of the scenario being either funny or shockingly serious. Had I more time I definitely would have polished a few scenes, but it is what it is with a game jam 🤷‍♂️

If you're willing, I'd love to know what specific scenes or lines you thought were dissonant, just to compare notes, so to speak. But regardless, I'm glad you liked it enough to leave an honest review 🦇💖

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I think it maybe has less to do with individual lines or scenes and more with just the general vibe of how the different elements are handled.

For example: the kidnapping, although something that would be a serious thing in reality, registers as a joke because the tone is nonchalant. It's over-the-top and exaggerated. In contrast, the social commentary feels like it presents bad situations that happen in real life almost as-is, notably in spite of many of the characters being mythological & otherworldly creatures you could also imagine being out of touch with human culture or bigoted in some kind of more caricaturish way. I don't want to give feedback that goes too far in the "you should have done this" zone, but I can imagine the incubus having no idea asexuality was a thing working as a gag, for instance. A lot of it doesn't feel like the game manages to translate the subject matter into the language of comedy (though I like some of the jokes that come up, like the repetitiveness of how everyone responds to Credence revealing his orientation).

I do think comedy of this sort, where you want to interweave a serious point with some extremely absurd events, is very hard to write in general, though! I hope the feedback you've gotten has felt useful!