If I was younger and read this. I would have been hooked into being a furry way faster. I'm 36 now and have a different perspective in life now reading it.
Overall i absolutely loved it. Amicus does play a predictable role for most of it and messes up surprisingly. Other characters all have motives which most are revealed and others still seem hidden.
In the end section I completely disagree with the relationship built and the lack of communication needed to really bond these characters. Having a relationship of being alone and only to kiss your loved one in the morning to have them returned exhausted for MONTHS, to then LEAVE FOR 8 YEARS. They needed to have much bigger conversations. I would have loved to have seen adult conversations what we face as we grow. HOW can we make this relationship work, How can we show affection, how do we date the one we love. Amicus is rightfully so taken to his duties. Leaving Marco alone for months with only 1 person to really converse with? I have been in a relationship for 10 years. These things need to be addressed or they build up.
Story up to the climax 10/10, story afterwards is a bit toxic for what is asked and hard to swallow. They use magic to foreshadowing the future and maybe it's enough? I am hoping for more in the future, maybe a comic, short vignettes, slice of life.
It has been a while since a story has left me with a silent warming sadness, a dull mixture of joy, love, bitter sadness and yearning. Happy pride month!
I have a lot of feelings but no furry friends to share them with. I'm not even a furry myself, believe it or not. Despite that, as a hopeless romantic, it's so easy to find comfort in the goofy and compassionate anthropomorphic wolf that Amicus is.
Couple slight spoilers ahead.
I've been crying on and off for a couple hours now. Some of it is anger and some of it is sadness. I'm upset that this was all I get (for now?). It wasn't enough. It doesn't feel fair that the whole story ended on a goodbye. I was obsessively pulled in over the past 48 hours and binged this to the end, consistently aware of "I'm getting closer to the end" and finding Amicus's bad end pleas of "No no no, please don't go" becoming my own @ the story itself.
It was so good and corny in the best ways. I have such a hard time in real life with advancing affection, often freezing completely in moments where others would make a move. I have ZERO issues in the social and flirty department (I'd even go as far as saying that I'm ridiculously charismatic) but stories like this allow me to vicariously make moves on characters easy to fall for and, I dunno, it fills a part of me I often forget and neglect. I'm not sure if it's a part of my asexuality or what but visual novels like this have become a safe space for me.
So I guess I just needed to put some of what I'm feeling somewhere. This story made such an impact on me in such a grossly short amount of time. Part of me feels silly, knowing it's just a fictional story about an alien wolf from a fake planet but also... I don't know.
I yearn for love and romance and fantastical places and things.
I don't know how long it will take for this sadness to leave me, but I know that Adastra and Amicus will be around for the rest of my life.
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If I was younger and read this. I would have been hooked into being a furry way faster. I'm 36 now and have a different perspective in life now reading it.
Overall i absolutely loved it. Amicus does play a predictable role for most of it and messes up surprisingly. Other characters all have motives which most are revealed and others still seem hidden.
In the end section I completely disagree with the relationship built and the lack of communication needed to really bond these characters. Having a relationship of being alone and only to kiss your loved one in the morning to have them returned exhausted for MONTHS, to then LEAVE FOR 8 YEARS. They needed to have much bigger conversations. I would have loved to have seen adult conversations what we face as we grow. HOW can we make this relationship work, How can we show affection, how do we date the one we love. Amicus is rightfully so taken to his duties. Leaving Marco alone for months with only 1 person to really converse with? I have been in a relationship for 10 years. These things need to be addressed or they build up.
Story up to the climax 10/10, story afterwards is a bit toxic for what is asked and hard to swallow. They use magic to foreshadowing the future and maybe it's enough? I am hoping for more in the future, maybe a comic, short vignettes, slice of life.
It has been a while since a story has left me with a silent warming sadness, a dull mixture of joy, love, bitter sadness and yearning. Happy pride month!
I have a lot of feelings but no furry friends to share them with. I'm not even a furry myself, believe it or not. Despite that, as a hopeless romantic, it's so easy to find comfort in the goofy and compassionate anthropomorphic wolf that Amicus is.
Couple slight spoilers ahead.
I've been crying on and off for a couple hours now. Some of it is anger and some of it is sadness. I'm upset that this was all I get (for now?). It wasn't enough. It doesn't feel fair that the whole story ended on a goodbye. I was obsessively pulled in over the past 48 hours and binged this to the end, consistently aware of "I'm getting closer to the end" and finding Amicus's bad end pleas of "No no no, please don't go" becoming my own @ the story itself.
It was so good and corny in the best ways. I have such a hard time in real life with advancing affection, often freezing completely in moments where others would make a move. I have ZERO issues in the social and flirty department (I'd even go as far as saying that I'm ridiculously charismatic) but stories like this allow me to vicariously make moves on characters easy to fall for and, I dunno, it fills a part of me I often forget and neglect. I'm not sure if it's a part of my asexuality or what but visual novels like this have become a safe space for me.
So I guess I just needed to put some of what I'm feeling somewhere. This story made such an impact on me in such a grossly short amount of time. Part of me feels silly, knowing it's just a fictional story about an alien wolf from a fake planet but also... I don't know.
I yearn for love and romance and fantastical places and things.
I don't know how long it will take for this sadness to leave me, but I know that Adastra and Amicus will be around for the rest of my life.
WHAT IF, 8 years after the end of this visual novel—it'll be continued? Tbh at this point I just want to see some human and Amicus content again 😭😭😭😭😭