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Love the game! Love the characters! Love the world building! Love everything! I hope there's much much more, and I'd love to support projects like this! <3

I have found a potential bug; when you get to the part where you tell Dillon to split up or stay together, provided you save Cass, it seems telling him to split up still keeps him with you like you said to stay together.

You said this was a demo? Please tell me more is planned! This is so good!

Just wondering if cheats exist or will be implemented. - sincerely, someone who sucks at these types of games :3

The characters being so talkative and having so many dialogue variations make this very replayable, it's Great! The game being so short works to this advantage too. I like rerunning through the game and just changing who's hypnotized or not or if Scott has the HUD virus. since I just imagine different endings like Dillon taking over as the leader if Scott and Cass are hypnotized when you defeat Woolbrain. Keep up the amazing work!

This is really charming! I like the way the HUD virus and the satellites kind of push you into each other to make it more likely you'll get to see the effects naturally. I love the ship design sprite, it's a got a great silhouette and the blaster animation is very fun! 

I think hitboxes could benefit from some adjustment. The bomb hitboxes definitely linger a little long also, I think they really only need to be active during the flash. Personally, I would also shrink the player's hurtbox to be fully contained within the sprite so that bullets don't hit you when they look like they missed. 

It would make dodging bullets easier most certainly, but I already like how the enemy and bullet patterns aren't particularly challenging unless you're dealing with a debuff. So leaning into that by making the debuffs harder to avoid, and the bullets easier to avoid might be an interesting route to take if you're planning more in the future. Plus the debuffs are more fun to look at.

I do think the gun debuff is mostly just annoying compared to the others, which are a fun challenge. A debuff that makes your hurtbox bigger by adding "wool" to your ship could be interesting though. Maybe even accompanied with a temporary sheep TF on Scott's portrait for a fun visual!

Really fun game, cool gimmick.

Was sort of hoping for an automatic gameover once you reach the woolbrain encounters with the mind control up. Maybe with a special ending too, hehe. But in general, super solid. Maybe a bit on the easy side altogether :P

Pretty impressed so far, left me hanging for more tbh. Characters are well-defined through their dialog and actions, having to deal with multiple things at once keeps you engaged, the hypnosis aspect is *mwah* perfect for this type of setting, it all fits. The only thing missing was really some kind of "deepened" state where if you're kept in trance for long enough either a whole different level or section plays out, regardless of your teammates' status. Alternatively, having something branching out if you do/don't rescue them would also be a big opportunity, basically the same as Star Fox since it's inspired by it anyways. 

If anything, what I'm left wondering is how much else is planned considering how basic the gameplay loop is. Just curious!

Best wishes to the team!

Super hot concept, I'd love to see more. I love that getting hypnotized is not an instant lose. Would be cool to see some permanent consequences if you do not clear the hypnosis, like a gradual corruption while still being able to progress the game, and suffer its consequences. I just enjoy slow burn corruption stuff like that. 

The characters are cute and likeable as well, I enjoyed the sprites and trying to find all the hypnotized dialogues

Absolute banger of a demo, super excited to see more content hopefully. Possibly multiple levels, a variety of villains and hypno methods, and some new enemies/attack patterns? There is a ton of design space here and y'all knocked it out of the park. Anything from here on out is gravy.

LOVE this, you guys absolutely knocked the "Starfox with hypno" concept out of the park here :) As someone else mentioned, I distinctly remember feeling funny when my ship would get captured/commandeered in Galaga, and so playing this is such a fun exploration of that exciting feeling of having control taken away.

First, I wanna applaud you guys for just making a fun game in general! The foundation of the game is a really competently-executed homage to Starfox/Galaga-type fixed shooters, with fun core gameplay and cute, well-written/illustrated characters. And then when it all takes a turn... @.@

The kink aspect is SO cleanly woven into the core gameplay. I absolutely love seeing your little character portrait's expression change (as well as that of your friends), as well as the way that the "punishment" for getting zonked/hacked imposes a handicap but still allows for the slowly-slimming possibility of playing through it. Really evokes that feeling of gradually losing control, and finally that lovely swoop of dread/acceptance when you realize, too late, that you've already lost.

Super excited to see where this project goes, but what you've already got here is a real gem. Thanks so much to all the devs!!

Amazing game I can’t wait for more levels and game overs love the hypnosis can’t wait to see more 

I love that there's variations on the dialogues on various scenarios, which caused me to play it again and again for a while, hot game

This is awesome. Wish I dind't suck at these sorts of games so I could see more of it, but sadly I'm awful, lmao. 

Really enjoyed this! The hypno-related interactivity was really good! One thing I would've liked was more randomness and hypno-related enemies. The boss fights would've also been amazing if more enemies kept spawning or if hypnoed teammates could be a hindrance.

Would love to see where this goes, if it continues! 

got to say I love what you got so far and i'm looking forward to more levels and game overs. ^v^

Super fun and cute, would love to see more combinations of outcomes for the different members getting zonked, but the mechanics are silly and fun and the characters are all great~

Very good! Only wish I could skip the tutorial section on subsequent playthroughs, otherwise this is fantastic!

Happy to know that I'm probably not the only one that felt weird during that part in Galaga where your ship gets captured by the enemy and now they're on the other side of the screen.

I want to see the hypno'd pilots as optional mini-bosses, or maybe they assist the enemy with extra bullets and whatnot.

Lovely game, I just have a small issue, pressing either option in the second choice dialogue gives the same result either way

Are there speed options?  I don't know why but on my computer a light press of the wasd keys sends the ship completely across the map.

Love the art and the writing, and the gameplay is simple but satisfying. This genre and kink pairing feels very clever. For spoiler reasons, I won't detail all the ways the design feels very well thought out, but I could name quite a few.

Honestly I really enjoyed the fact that it really does well the evil villain trying to hypnotize you through gameplay, I like the use of the dialogues to show the state of hypnosis and how it can affect what you say and what happens to you or your teammates. really well done gameplay honestly

Gods this was a great little experience, keep up the banger hypno stuff you're always making!

This was fun! Played it twice. One for like a proper all correct response and the other to see what the dialogue is like if theyre all under.

Good game so far hope to see more scenes

pretty fun!

VERY fun game~! Wonderful work by everyone!

Oh damn this is out ALREADY? Good lord! Congrats on the release!