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Hi! I'm not the best at leaving reviews but I felt the need to with this one.

 I downloaded this game through the Racial Equality and Justice bundle and I'd give this 4/5!!

I played this game on my stream (For about 45 minutes/10 days) and honestly, it was such a lovely experience for how far I got! Although the presentation/GUI could use some tweaking here and there, the rest of the game was a joy to play. The writing was amazing, I loved the slight off undertones it had, especially with Heroine asking odd questions or responding to things in a very strange manner and the main character just shrugging it off. 
It was also nice to get random flashbacks, it gave a nice addition to the world-building and the main character's thoughts. It makes me want to play more of it in my own time to figure out what is going on.

But after a while of playing it did start to get a bit boring as I had no idea what the actual end goal was, nor did I know if the game had an ending in the first place. Dialogue tended to repeat itself and there was no build-up to the flashbacks, they just randomly happened.

With the skin tone changes, I kind of wished that was something you could do before the game properly started instead of it being something that you buy for her. It would have made me more attached to the Heroine if I could give her a customised base design from the get-go and then buy clothes for her to change into afterwards.

I'm not sure if you'd ever come back to either update the game or fully do it over but I'd definitely like to see how far you'd take it if you did so!

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Thank you for the comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it~

I agree with the negatives 100%. The game's structure relies somewhat on there being a lot of content, but unfortunately the scope of the game doesn't match that demand. It doesn't really have the legs to run a marathon, ahaha. That's definitely something I want to improve in future.

The initial customization idea is really good! I wish I'd thought of that myself. I'll definitely keep that in mind when I come back to By Your Side. Thanks for the feedback.

Oh, and most importantly, thank you for supporting the bundle!