I love what youve produced so far. Lots of story and development. The humor and the flirting is great. I fell in love with Sissel right away and I feel a really good connection with Owen. You know what you're doing and this is a good ride so far

OMG THAT BACKSTORY OF OWEN!!! ;m;

I really like the scenes of young Owen and young Phillip and the corrupted Wish's new "eye" sprite had me on EDGE. Excited for what comes next, though for CGs of Owen and Phillip it looked "off" when they just looked at us/the camera as opposed to Owen's mother or the well Wish.

Yah doing good from what I can tell. Really striking us in the feels here. Just a question, for the (I believe) Day seven scene where you use your (newly upgraded) camera. Do you intend for one item to be photographed as canon and the rest if any as optional or are you intending to set it up so that we get the photographed item of whoever's route we're trying to follow?

In simpler terms, are you going to make that certain plot element specific to one person or geared towards whoever we're going to build a relationship with. Furthermore are we going to be able to get multiple backstory reveals all at one time?

It goes back to that fellow patron on your patreon talking about choices involving the day trip to the lake.

Choosing to comfort Owen or Phillip does not lock you out of their respective routes when the time to branch between routes come. However, your choice will have an impact on what happens afterwards, since their stories kinda overlap slightly (you'll know what I mean when we get there).

Plus, Owen and Phillip are complete foils of each other. Owen is extremely passive, sexual, tries to please everyone, and forgives easily. Phillip takes no bullshit, incredibly aggressive, and never lets go of a grudge. Whichever item you chose, it'll have an impact on the characters, just watch~

Really nice work so far. The 'wish' concept is a refreshing twist on the spirits/ghosts trope and the writing is very engaging. The pacing is just fine in my opinion; there weren't any points where I thought the narrative was lagging. My only suggestion is to keep up what you're doing - it's clearly working :3.

Obligatory wall o’ text and spoiler warning.

Day 7 Events: I saw Owen’s stuff coming a mile away; didn’t stop it from making me tear up a bit when it happened. As for Phillip, I did not see that coming at all, even though the whole “learning from pain” thing Phillip mentioned at the ice rink definitely sent a chill down my spine. I must applaud you for the switch from the wishing well scene to the chair scene—starting everything out all nice and happy, the dialogue subtly hinting something bad is about to happen, building up suspense, and then Phillip in the chair… Well, I spent a while just staring at the screen in shock. After years of violent, gory video games and movies, very little can phase me. However, with the way you executed that scene, combined with the emotional investment into the character through the previous 6 days, I have a very hard time thinking up a scene from any game, movie, or any other piece of literature for that matter, that pulled a punch like this scene did.

Opinions of Owen/Phillip: I have a weird feeling on this. I don’t know how to explain it, but I now kinda look at both characters in a different light now, but my general opinion of them has not changed.

Overall Story: Pacing perfectly fine. I mean, the impact of Day 7 (as mentioned above) would not have been as forceful if the pacing was faster. The story gives a kind of anime-ish vibe with the whole school environment with supernatural ghost-like phenomena going on, especially when you factor in the perverted nature of the main character. However, you are managing to pull it off better than any anime I’ve ever watched (though truth be told, I only watch violent, bloody anime so my opinion doesn’t really count for much here). The blend of light-heartedness with the hint of darkness looming on the horizon (ew, did I just write that?) allows the narrative to be fun and comedic while making the occasional bout of seriousness more impactful. In general, I have yet to find another story that consistently makes me smile (example: the attack of the legion of kiddies in the defense of Phillip’s “privates”—pure gold right there).

Artwork: I am not an art critic and I am not exactly a fan of your art. I do find your sprites to be visually pleasing, but they seem a bit different in style compared to your CG art. Both are recognizable as coming from the same artist, but the CGs seem to be using a slightly different ‘style;’ I personally prefer your sprites to your CG, at least in terms of the aesthetics of your characters. On a side note, your NSFW art always seems a bit ‘odd’ when it comes to genitalia. The way you draw them always seems a bit ‘off.’ I am by no means an expert, but it seems that you draw the penis a little too curvy and sometimes the shaft seems a little too thin relative to the head. Of course, this is just my personal opinion and I doubt many of your watchers consider this a problem in your work, so there is no need to take my criticism seriously.

Critique: Yeah, I cannot resist. I feel that I must mention that there is currently a small problem regarding the structure of your game. It is possible, via certain combinations of choices, to result in Euca missing out on key information regarding a character and then act as if he knew that information later in the story, despite having no opportunity to learn it. The most obvious examples are Sissel’s cooking skills and Phillip’s homework sessions on the roof. For each case, it is possible to learn only about one of these traits, but never learn about the other (ex: choose Owen on Day 2 morning, choose roof on Day 2 night, never learn about Sissel’s cooking/baking) and then Euca will mention the trait later (ex: despite never learning about Sissel’s cooking/baking skills, Euca will correctly guess that Sissel made him the bake goods on Day 3). Right now, the continuity breaks are barely noticeable and do not impact the narrative, but the current issues are related to key character traits that will undoubtedly become important later in the story. You should keep a closer eye on such things as the story gets longer and becomes more complicated. Otherwise, for example, a future scene may depend heavily on Phillip’s fear of heights, but it is currently possible for a player to miss all scene’s pertaining to that trait, so a new player may reach that scene without ever knowing of Phillip’s flaw and, when it is brought up, will scratch his head and say “Wait, Phillip’s afraid of heights? When the fuck did that happen?”

Closing Remarks: Despite the paragraph of criticism regarding game structure (and male genitalia), Repeat is still a great story and has greatly exceeded all expectations with the latest update. At the time of your last feedback journal on version 0.4.2, I was about to decide on which VN, out of the several I was following, that I would support on Patreon. Shortly after that journal, I decided to support Repeat. After the last few updates—especially this last one!—I am glad to see that have I made the right choice. Blackgate, Echo, Four-Letter-Word… sure, they’re decent VNs, and I’m also pretty sure that they each do some things better than Repeat, but, as I said, yours is the only one to consistently make me smile. Now that I have typed that incredibly cheesy line, I guess I’ve said everything I had to say. Good luck and keep doing whatever your doing—its working.

I second 032's notion on the information breaks in suspension in disbelief. I might have played different routes and choices to not catch this. But I do know in visual novel games, one of the key things to keep track of is the concept of information and how things branch, occur or not occur due to how much the main character has or has not. So this be something to keep in mind in the future.

My only real complaint would be that I wish Repeat was updated more often. I can't get enough of this novel, Seeing Owen as a kid was cute, Phiilips' story is sad and Sissel is becoming more relatable which is good. As for the pacing? seems ok to me so far.

For me Repeat is a beautiful, funny, and intriguing story. Dispite some grammar mistakes, it's very well done. Great job so far! I'm writing a romance myself, but it's my first time. So I don't have enough experience to give you some advice. Sorry... I can only recommend to check out OokamKasumi. She has some pretty useful tutorials for writers)))

I really can't think of anything particularly constructive to say that hasn't been said already.
I really love Owen's back story though. I could kind of see what was coming for the second part of it but it still almost made me cry.
And Phillip's hit like a truck. I honestly never expected anything like that, but it really helps explain his personality.
The wishes concept is really cool imo and I can't wait to see more!

You have done an amazing job with this game, and some of the comments here have been written better than I could've myself. I also want to say that of all the furry artists I've seen, I have never seen anyone take criticism better than you.

So far repeat has been an amazing VN full of tears and laughs and in this update specifically i like how you introduce mimir chained to the well which gives some insight to earlier in the game by dropping a subtle hint to his existence via rattling chains during the race between owen and sissel (which shows that phillip was interested just as much as the player in "seeing" owen), and then we get to seeing phillip tied up. all i can say is that this was my face (0_0) i was in shock. i then closed the game took a walk came BACK and then continued. as for owens route i cried during the second portion. i absolutely could not handle the feels at all whatsoever. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!