Goodbye Volcano High

I don't know if I can continue playing this game anymore, it's just been a painful experience for me to slug through it. I actually got depressed because this game was not the game I thought it would be, and I got bored at a lot of parts. The only thing that kept me going was the anticipation of hearing more music from the band and practice scenes, as the songs are amazing but I can just listen to them outside the game. A lot of the game had no music or much background sound at all, which would have been fine if the scenes were more interesting or if they had maybe added good intro music? There's literally only ONE romance option and I'm definitely not the only person who felt creeped out that they were stalkerish if not overstepping boundaries. As someone who has had to deal with stalking irl, it was really triggering for me. Yes, they had good intentions and were not a bad person but maybe if the writing had developed things out better they wouldn't have come off as creepy. And why did it seem like they were enabled by others to do all this without the main character giving initial consent? I think it's only convenient that the main character took it well. I wouldn't have minded the lack of romanceable characters if done better, it could have been a cute romance. I'm also disappointed that the game devs decided to scrap the option to date the other characters, but still record relationship building for all of them? If not romance scenes then could they have given friendship scenes? It seems like they had to rush, or maybe they had to cut down on content they didn't have the budget to include. I don't really see the point of the photos because they are literally just screenshots from the game with a bit of text underneath, not any bonus content. I'm used to games having a feature like this to display extra images not seen in game. If they only wanted to give screenshots for the photos then they could have just removed this feature as there is already an option to unlock some backstory content. The 2D art looks way better than the 3D models. The 3D models have clipping and are pretty rough. It's a shame because I like the character designs. As I mentioned before, the writing needs some work. Not just for the storytelling, but some of the dialogue felt like boring filler. If it couldn't be replaced with something more interesting I say just cut it out to save the reader from having to go through short one liners. The voice acting was done well but the way it was edited in was not good. Too many long pauses, which makes the characters sound unnatural. I think the game had potential but I just can't recommend it in this state. Also I'm not against the representation, the person who does the normal speaking voice for Fang is literally a non-binary feminist.