loved the presentation, the use of sound effects, the animations, and how evocative and beautiful the prose is. this is a beautiful vn, it was definitely an experience.
The parallax of the theater seats is so cool! The myriad ways we are signalled as to which character is speaking was so natural and at the same time so mesmerizing. The art direction is so focused and well-defined and PRETTY! I love all the little details, the text imperfectly printed on theater pamphlets, the ways the stage dances around itself, the overwhelming amount of beautiful setpieces that y'all made for this, sometimes to only be seen for the blink of an eye.
Just before playing this, I was actually thinking a lot about set design for my next game, specifically on how The Adolescence of Utena, as well as the full series moves things around. This performance confirmed for me that all those things and more can be done with renpy, and I'm looking forward to digging through this thing's guts to see how it was all done.
I barely think I'll be able to scratch the surface on how much I loved the writing. To start, the wordplay is out of this world. The title alone, "Moth X Flame," being the roles of the characters AND descriptive of the the theming and narrative is genius. I loved the monologues exploring plurality, gender, sexuality, aberration-as-disease, medicalization of the human experience, interpersonal relations as related to blood, conformity, monogamy, and rejection of the self. I was especially impacted by the scene about the self-pruning bonsai, due to my own experiences of being coerced into trimming away parts of myself for others.
I have a penchant for speaking and writing in an odd theatric fashion, and often suppress it for the sake of being treated as human. This play opened my eyes to how much of myself I am discarding by denying myself the bacchanal ecstasy of theatrics.
This feels redundant to say, but this was such a theatrical VN. The Understudy's soliloquy slash monologue was amazing; the use of the stage lights and curtains to transition between scenes and the far away shots to the understudy on stage really felt like I was watching a play. This novel was indeed very visual. Understudy breaking character from maintaining her bombastic persona of being inhuman to call use her name, Adelaide, to steady herself and speak casually was great character writing. The ending was breath taking. I didn't want her to die, and I'm glad it seems everyone else is reaching out to her, but I also felt her frustration at her plan failing. Wonderful game, was shocked that I really did finish reading this within an hour. Just felt so engrossed in the story.
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loved the presentation, the use of sound effects, the animations, and how evocative and beautiful the prose is. this is a beautiful vn, it was definitely an experience.
wow! Wowwowowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowowowowowowoowwoowowowowowowowowowow!
wow!!
This performance absolutely blew me away.
The parallax of the theater seats is so cool! The myriad ways we are signalled as to which character is speaking was so natural and at the same time so mesmerizing. The art direction is so focused and well-defined and PRETTY! I love all the little details, the text imperfectly printed on theater pamphlets, the ways the stage dances around itself, the overwhelming amount of beautiful setpieces that y'all made for this, sometimes to only be seen for the blink of an eye.
Just before playing this, I was actually thinking a lot about set design for my next game, specifically on how The Adolescence of Utena, as well as the full series moves things around. This performance confirmed for me that all those things and more can be done with renpy, and I'm looking forward to digging through this thing's guts to see how it was all done.
I barely think I'll be able to scratch the surface on how much I loved the writing. To start, the wordplay is out of this world. The title alone, "Moth X Flame," being the roles of the characters AND descriptive of the the theming and narrative is genius. I loved the monologues exploring plurality, gender, sexuality, aberration-as-disease, medicalization of the human experience, interpersonal relations as related to blood, conformity, monogamy, and rejection of the self. I was especially impacted by the scene about the self-pruning bonsai, due to my own experiences of being coerced into trimming away parts of myself for others.
I have a penchant for speaking and writing in a
n oddtheatric fashion, and often suppress it for the sake of being treated as human. This play opened my eyes to how much of myself I am discarding by denying myself the bacchanal ecstasy of theatrics.This feels redundant to say, but this was such a theatrical VN. The Understudy's soliloquy slash monologue was amazing; the use of the stage lights and curtains to transition between scenes and the far away shots to the understudy on stage really felt like I was watching a play. This novel was indeed very visual. Understudy breaking character from maintaining her bombastic persona of being inhuman to call use her name, Adelaide, to steady herself and speak casually was great character writing. The ending was breath taking. I didn't want her to die, and I'm glad it seems everyone else is reaching out to her, but I also felt her frustration at her plan failing. Wonderful game, was shocked that I really did finish reading this within an hour. Just felt so engrossed in the story.
MOTH X FLAME is uniquely painful
This was really good
Fucking broke me
The pain was too familiar
I don't wanna say much, cause I don't want to take anything away.
The art was good, the framing, the shots, the scenes, lovely stuff.
This hurt a lot.
Thank you for making this <3.