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Wow, for a first build It has a considerable amount of text. Now I have nothing but good toughts about the project. Thank you! I loved reading this. 

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Absolutely love it so far. I even cried a bit. I can't wait for what's coming next 😁

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Hope the MC will get a bit better soon unlike FBTW. Marruk and Rhoun are my favorite but Marruk is unique in this case. Rhoun's face reminds me a bit of Captain Dallas from Alien which is good.

i mean, lol fbtw isn't going to end any soon, as much as i think he was kinda stupid at the begining he definetly going to glow up more and more

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I change my mind. The MC is created poorly. Another human mc that failed to be good. If they want to create a well done human MC, I recommend do research

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Well I enjoyed what you have written so far and looking forward to the next updates. As it's already been pointed out in several posts now about some issues, I'm not going to get into them myself.

Just hope that our choice doesn't slow things down, as that's now three different routes you got to create. So wondering what your road plan for future updates will look like.

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It felt short, but boy am I already liking the art and characters. :)

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I don’t have much to say, but I really liked the story.

I hope your visual novel gets noticed by the community 

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I’m not good at drawing, but here is a fan-art I’m trying to draw.

Sorry if it’s a bit to early to draw these 

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I made little progress

But I’m having troubles with the body, so here is a sketch I think

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I procrastinated on this way to long, but it looks very crappy, so sorry about that, but it’s better then nothing right?

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Oh I just saw this sorry! So cute! Thanks for the art!

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Amazing start of great vn, I cant believe its so huge already, it took me till 2:30 am, looking forward to next update, ,I put this on my top 3 list with soulcreek and far beyond the world. 

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I think we have the same top 3 XD.

Though i love "remember the flowers" too

(Edit : i hate having to deal with my french auto correct XD)

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Soon after I sent that comment I realised it too i forgot to add Remember the flowers, so thats my top 4

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Ill take top four -w-

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Damn I really wasn't expecting this first build to be sooo long, that was quite a nice surprise!

Really enjoyed this first build, and I like where it's going as well, can't wait for the next update!

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jBrW7ld2JtG2KV7Et_WzmXJwetvwWkUUrmldcgqlFYc/...

Hello there! I played through and really enjoyed your visual novel, and you asked others to share any grammatical errors that they found! Since I was bored, and because I loved your story so much, I thought why not compile a scene-by-scene heavily opinionated analysis of the style of your game, hopefully so it’s easier for you to improve it! Feel free to take this into consideration only if you want to, I’ll love your game regardless of whether you care about this feedback ☺. It is also verrrryyy nitpicky at points, and I’m not following any language or style guide, just my personal preferences. (Anyone with the link to this document can comment, so be nice, and let me know if I have a bad take lol)

I originally planned on doing more but basically only did the first introductory bit. If you want me to do more, let me know! I'll keep this updated as I go through my second playthrough each weekend. This is a love letter for version 1.0 of Roads Yet Traveled, and I can’t wait to read the following chapters! Thank you for making one of my favorite visual novels of all time.

Respectfully,

dvartho

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Thank you for taking the time to give me notes! Do you think however that you could offer them up in some other manner? I am not a fan of clicking on random links, thank you!

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That’s understandable! What would be the best way to contact you with these? If it’s not a document or a file (right now it’s a Google Doc) I don’t really know what other form these could take, my apologies. (I could send you an email, but I don’t know where to find an address)

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If they are not too long feel free to send them to me in a twitter dm or send images of the notes
If that doesnt work I can figure something else out!

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It's a google drive link, also i don't think clicking a link can give you a virus. Only running an .exe file you download from a fishy link can. I checked it, there's a lot of notes there

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I love how you formatted these notes, fantastic work!

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Got to reading the notes. They were helpful thank you. If you continue to write them I will read them heh. Thanks for enjoying my VN!

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Sorry I didn't figure out a better way to get them to you, I think your twitter dms were closed :). Good luck with the next build, you are amazing!!

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I just want to say good job CryptidDog! Despite what other say I do believe we as human make mistakes and it isn't our entire fault and the art is great! I can' t wait to see you improving in the future <3

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Okay, so, to start off with: I am genuinely amazed with how fuckin' long this first update is; 6-7 hours of content. I'm just blown away by that.

Now onto the actual review portion: The art is well drawn, all the characters are well-fleshed out, and the story kept me intrigued enough to continue reading despite the majority of the update taking place in a single room. You seem to have taken aspect of both Adastra and Far Beyond the World, but have majorly improved upon those absolutely dogshit games by making the MC actually intelligent and not a piece of stiff cardboard. Amazing. 

Now on to the critical side of things (And for those idiots who think being critical of something you enjoyed is a bad thing, you need to grow the fuck up). 

The grammar and punctuation, spelling and syntax is at times fucking awful. The formatting of the VN itself needs a shit ton of work put into it. There were times were no name came up for dialogue, and other times where the wrong name came up. I don't particularly like the direction the VN is going in either. Romance furry VNs are so oversaturated and they get very boring after awhile. 

Overall, I enjoyed this VN quite a bit. I'll leave a link to my series on the VN:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs_BZI-CHxZwTbXueujDVg-Hv6SZRny1M

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I agree with you on almost everything, just I would not say its "fucking awful" a bit of an overstatement, but it's true that sometimes some things are out of the box but it still was pretty easy to understand what was happening (and I'm not even an English native). for the direction it is taking, I think it's a matter of taste there, I honestly like it but mostly because I'm into romance but at least is not random romance (i mean there is no romance yet which makes sense given the circumstance) and the fact the MC actually has a brain (as you said) help a lot so yeah

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While being able to criticize things you enjoy is important, and I think you do a fine job of it here, would it not also be helpful to point out these grammatical errors?

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theres already a post about the grammatical errors

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Criticism is welcome, but you dont need to be rude and ignorant to give your OPINION, just like its absolutely unnecessary to disregard something to praise something else.

Do not take your opinion on something as the absolute truth. Its fine if you do not like those VNs, but insulting them (and everyone involved) is pretty stupid and childish of you, specially when they are between the top furry VNs and are used as the high quality standard and influence so many others.

Being an ass while doing a "hot take" is not cOol, get off your high horse and grow up.

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So good.

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I loved it, what a heck of a first release you really wanted to start with a boom totally recommended loved it from the start

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Omg this is so amazing hehe can't wait to see wat happens

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Were the backgrounds illustrated by KaelTiger? I swear I know this artstyle...

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No hah. But I was inspired by his work. Its some of my fav for sure.

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You did a damn good job at recreating his artstyle, then. I love it!

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alright so first that VN is SO GOOD !!!

i've heard of it accidentally on twitter and i decided to download it to see what it was about and BOY i was not disapointed!

all the characters are really lovely even if one of them is an ass, the scenes are beautifully drawn they all have their own unique little details, the story is catching etc etc...

But i've noted small problems too:

1- sometimes MC is speaking to a character but it looks like he's talking in his head because his name is nowhere to be seen and there's no quotation marks.

2- At one time Marruk is speaking but his name is still stuck to "doc".

So yeah there's small problems here and there but it will not ruin your reading experience.

Anyway i love this novel i'm so hype for the next update!! 

PS: i was expecting like 2 days in game and then a "To be continued..." screen but i was happily surprised to see that you've wrote A LOT MORE than what i was anticipating.

I love this one you have no idea (>_>)

thanks again for your work ! 

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Ah well if you run into the issues please feel free to reach out to me so I can fix them! I have fixed a few already but I'm sure there are many more x.x And thank you! The writing has been a fun aspect for me so I enjoy making the updates as long as I can manage.

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You must have been working hard on this for a long time, initial release has least 4 builds (4 to 8 months of work) worth of content.  And this is all just the Prologue and Chapter One!

I look forward to meeting all the other named characters (with sprites!) and some brief bits with other random/minor role (like the one ran into in the hall, a sprite or two) (these could also be replaced with CGs in event of multiple characters too), the amenities, and finding out the cause of the story!

Really love how you made all the characters as similar as they are different from each other, doing it in this way with no clear bias even from the MC, I may just do them all!

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Im going to look around alittle 1st.

$, after i examine your BrainChild^^ (reviews leave me hopeful^^)

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I'm hooked, waiting for more updates, very nice VN :).

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Alright, not gonna do a full review just yet, because that'll be a few pages long and it's getting late, so here's just the shots I'm calling.

1. Chief is evil, big bad, final boss, main antagonist, hate that dude.

2. Marrow is some kind of Bio-Bot (at least, more is artificial than he's letting on). I was originally thinking full android for various reasons (no smell, immunity to disease, no monitor, "I forgot", "that's the whole point", etc. etc.) but then he ate near the very end, and genuinely does seem to sleep. At this point I think he might even have been fully bio and we have a brain-scan situation on our hands.

3. Marruk lost someone close to him in the same accident that caused Rhoun's arm to get amputated.

4. The artificial gravity generator is going to be damaged/must be turned off at some point in the story and MC is going to be the only one to fix it/do it.

5. Chief is using the neural language AI to monitor the main cast constantly. Abusing the constant uploading they're doing of MC's speech patterns to a central database he can access.

6. Chief's "grand experiment" or whatever was what brought us onto the ship, and I'd even go so far as to say it did so intentionally.

7. Finally a silly one. There will be a naughty scene where the AI learns the English words for naughty parts. Later, these words will be used by MC in passing, but since the AI learned them it will translate perfectly, rather than that odd dissonance. This will fly over most characters heads, but one will later realize that MC talked dirty with one of the others.

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I just wonder what they want out of the MC. He's the only alien to them in existence. Would they really let him live a free life on their home planet or something? Or would his life be under constant "protection"?

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I have fallen for this game it sooo amazing

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Excellent first update, cannot wait to see more. Certainly a gem in the wave of recent visual novels. 

The word-building, though just hinted at, has left me intrigued; Albeit, the mystery might be doing much of the heavy lifting in that regard. I cannot wait to see more about this new universe. I have already fallen in love with the characters, and that's not just the wonderful art doing that, they are all uniquely captivating. Without spoilers, the first decision left me thinking for longer than I though it would -- a testament to the author's ability to leave me enthralled. Overall, a promising start that the author has proven to be more than capable to build on (which oddly enough isn't the norm with some of these visual novels).  

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I hope Doc treats the Main Character as a pet someday :3

Not sexually like, like a normal pet, since that's how he seems to see MC, tho probably unconsciously.

I mean if you see a sentient fennec fox that walks on two legs, would you hold yourself to not treat it as an adorbs pet?

Like with MC starting to ponder "Man, Doc is so nice to me. He gave me clothes, a warm bath and bed, minding what kind of food I can eat, thinking about me and my well-being, pampering me with pats... Wait a sec. Why does this feels I'm a pet?"

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Bruh

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I love the story so far that I clean most of my schedule to read this VN X3

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What a brilliant story xou've written so far! n_n Not only is the plot alluring, but the pace is done perfectly~ UwU Xou've contrived a unique list of characters, done a great job with the world building, drawn some lovely art, and kudos for straying from the gullible type of MC that accepts everything at face value! :P I really like how relatable he is :)

And making this VN even better is how freaking big xour 1irst update is! xD I was so sad when it ended "^__^ Can't wait for more~ keep up all the great work~! >_</

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Ah thanks! Already writing but it'll take a bit!

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Wow. That was pretty amazing. I just finished the first build of the game, and the world-building, intrigue, characters, writing, music, art, it was top notch.

It is a testament to your writing ability that the majority of the game so far is spent in one room, yet it didn't feel boring at all. I love how we learn about the characters, the inner-monologue of the main character, and the mystery surrounding the station and how we got there.

The first few scenes were missing some punctuation marks, some mistyped words throughout, incorrect capitalization, etc. It didn't detract from the rest of the story though, it was only minor things. It's pretty crazy for a first build how much content there is though, so I definitely understand that the story is much more important than these minor issues at this point.

Thank you so much for such an amazing experience, I'm so inspired by your talent and the work that has gone into this. :D

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Ah thank you! There -were- more spelling errors but yeah I did my best to find a lot of them hah. If you see any spelling errors/punctuation feel free to reach out so I can fix them for a future update.

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Keep up the amaaazing work, I’ll reach out with anything I find on another playthrough 😁

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great job making this Vn it's awesome to read and the art is soo cool 

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It took me an entire day (4am - 5pm) to read though this 1st build, yes with breaks in between. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Even though those blank screens terrified me for those dreaded works "to be continued".   

In your trailer video if you're willing to answer @CryptidDog what was that I saw in the static? A star?

Also, I have no idea how your gonna explain how Tucker reached another (for lack of the accurate term) solar system. 

Can't wait for your next build.

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There are some things in the static, not easily seen. Its the characters eyes from the animation.

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Oh, I really didn't notice there were eyes in the static, I watched it over and saw them.  Can I ask what is the timeline you estimate for build releases? 1, 2, 3 months?

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Yeah its definitely a bit hard to say. This took me forever but I also started from scratch. Ill probably need some new backgrounds and some new sprites but im hoping for not too long. This took like 4-5~ months hah

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this is so good and there were a few bugs in there I would like to say one of them is where I chose marowhen and nearing the end of the update marowhen name popped up twice when the mc name was supposed to

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Incredible First build, i cannot wait to see how It continues !

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Now this is a VN! Super excited to see where this goes, amazing work!!

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Thank you!

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This VN absolutely BLEW my mind!

I usually head into new VNs not expecting much, but this... i was not prepared for something THIS good. I felt like I was constantly intrigued, especially for how much content there was for a first release? Like, wow haha, it was just so much fun to read overall! Not to mention the amount of time I'm sure that went into all the backgrounds, sprites, and CGs with all of those subtle variations; just amazing work. 

I'm super excited to see where this goes!

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;W; Oh my gosh thank you! I'm just tryin to make something other people can enjoy and that I can be proud of! Glad you like it!

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I still playing on about 4 hours sleep in the span of 37 hours roughly. Suffice to say I am enjoying it.


However, as an anthropology student, I am shocked that there isn't a furry vn called 'Anthro-pology' at this point because games with this trope of finding oneself in a new world (which i love) is immensly anthropological XD. Stop making me think pls T_T

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I split my reading sessions into 3 days and i still was kept till 2 am twice

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Such a stellar first build honestly, that animation and complete shift at the start got me SO hyped. I also really like the 'first contact' approach to that kind of plot device because it's a very different take on it imo. Aside from a few things incorrect with dialogue/ui here and there (hardly surprising with how much there was), I really appreciate the level of polish too. Very excited for more

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Ah thank you! And oh if you see any errors feel free to reach out to me so I can fix them in upcoming updates!

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what a fantastic read. I could spend way more hours just reading about how they learn each others' languages, mannerisms and cultures. Not to mention the crisp art, or the skillful writing abilities to evoke specific emotions.

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Oh geez thanks! That's too kind but thank you! I'm excited to work on it more!

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I was so shocked this is only the first update of the game, the illustration and animation are literally amazing, the story is fun and the length of the game is really impressive for the first build and I really can't wait to see how the story and the VN pans out!

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Ah thanks! I just kept writing and writing and then it was so long but I'm glad I did! I think I got to a good stopping point for now!.

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What an amazing first build! I was not expecting it to be around 4-5 hours long which was a pleasant surprise and I have to say that I really enjoyed the VN. The artwork is amazing and the story is also written really well. Each of the characters have their own personalities and I really enjoyed seeing the relationships between Tucker and the three potential love interests blossom. I can't wait to read more! Keep up the amazing work!

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Ah thank you! I can't wait to develop on them more!

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Hey, there aren’t any megabytes in the Linux download from the looks of it.

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Okay I can try to fix that. I don't use Linux so let me figure that out! Thanks for the heads up

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The Linux download worked perfectly fine for me, is it possible you had a download error? I doubt it matters, but just in case I used Ark to extract the files.

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This is such a promising start, I can't wait to see where it goes! As a side note, I really liked the little changes between each character's room, really adds to the characterization in a subtle way. Literally even the way they stored their toothbrushes differed!

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Ah thank you! It was such a little thing I'm so glad you noticed!

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Working on it!

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