To date, the most well-written VN I've read. It's one of very few "games" I've ever recommended to my non-gamer parent. At first I was just vibing with the music (so pleased to have the OST in my possession. Definitely music I want to listen to outside the game), the striking visual art style, and the poetic writing. That was enough. After a while the narrative really picks up, and I found myself engrossed and eager to get back to the story whenever I was too busy to read it. It also provided me with some inspiration and motivation to make something of my own.
Vampires aren't thematically interesting for me, but Cross the Moon threatened to turn me into a myth-busting vampire activist haha. I don't believe that the way vampires in the story are treated was intended to be a perfect parallel to any particular real-world forms of discrimination, but I thought it was insightful and really well done. There's also an intersectional aspect to the experiences of discrimination two of the protagonists have, being Black in an overwhelmingly White city, and I appreciated that being touched on.
Among the itch store page's listed content warnings is "sexual descriptions". I played the Switch version, for which such scenes were altered to remove the sexual descriptions. The Switch version has nothing more than possible implications of sexual relations. I don't know whether this content is intact in the Steam version.
Was happy to see mlm and wlw rep!
The one thing that bothered me a bit was navigating the menu (mainly when I wanted to reference the text log). It's more comfy on PC, but it's not enough of a nuisance to make me wish I did differently. (But you can get the OST for just $5 extra if you buy the VN on itch!)
For anyone who dislikes kinetic VNs, I also want to mention that Cross the Moon does not present the reader with choices (there's a very little bit of interaction!). Please know what you're getting into.
Had a really nice time with this one. And it's a great price! I hope that more people will enjoy it.
Vampires aren't thematically interesting for me, but Cross the Moon threatened to turn me into a myth-busting vampire activist haha. I don't believe that the way vampires in the story are treated was intended to be a perfect parallel to any particular real-world forms of discrimination, but I thought it was insightful and really well done. There's also an intersectional aspect to the experiences of discrimination two of the protagonists have, being Black in an overwhelmingly White city, and I appreciated that being touched on.
Among the itch store page's listed content warnings is "sexual descriptions". I played the Switch version, for which such scenes were altered to remove the sexual descriptions. The Switch version has nothing more than possible implications of sexual relations. I don't know whether this content is intact in the Steam version.
Was happy to see mlm and wlw rep!
The one thing that bothered me a bit was navigating the menu (mainly when I wanted to reference the text log). It's more comfy on PC, but it's not enough of a nuisance to make me wish I did differently. (But you can get the OST for just $5 extra if you buy the VN on itch!)
For anyone who dislikes kinetic VNs, I also want to mention that Cross the Moon does not present the reader with choices (there's a very little bit of interaction!). Please know what you're getting into.
Had a really nice time with this one. And it's a great price! I hope that more people will enjoy it.