Just finished Cedric's route, and I'm so charmed by this VN! So many twists and turns, I love their dynamic. SO much praise for this story, art, and music choices! I read it out loud and some of the music was timed perfectly with the story beats, especially near the climax! I will try to finish the other routes if I can tide my feelings for best boy Cedric. Raucous applause!
This made me feel so many emotions oh my god.. i love this vn so much i cant explain it (ps i reccomend playing casual by chappel roan while playing wes route it fits him so much) I CANT LIVE WITHOUT THIS VN I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!! RAHHH I KNEW IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO DOWNLOAD THIS VN PLEASE MAKE MORE VNS IM BEGGING YOU
First I thought you had to confront him to get a good ending, but that's just not what I'd do if I were Kieran, so I just chose the way I would manage that situation. Good thing it ended up all right. It amazes me the way Phibbean understands people's minds, and can predict logical outcomes from the way we handdle our relationships... I'll have to take the other (extreme) approach later just to see what changes.
Gosh, this reminds me of the Chronicles of Narnia. It's hard for me to say to describe how this story made me feel, about imagination, about self-identity ...... It was like a mirror that made me rethink what I wanted as a child, and it's not like I pushed myself into a well. Everyone's stories are again so beautiful and moving ...... I love this game as much as I love people with good intentions and fairy tales in general. Thank you to all the creators who made peregrine better with reality and the world everyone lives in.😭❤
"Too bad this VN with actually competent writing, a breathtaking story, and good humor has NO PORN ART in it! 0/10, won't recommend" - Furries, I guess.
On a more serious note, this VN is receiving way less attention than it should.
I'm not going to pretend it's the best thing ever - there are some minor caveats, but all downsides are greatly out-weighted by the upsides.
The writing style is actually good - it's easy to read, it's not wasting your time, the humor is light and funny, the characters are interesting, the erotic scenes are genuinely well-written, you get plenty of choices on how to play through the story, and there's a whole bunch of endings that are not decided in the last 3 minutes of the plot.
This is my favorite VN that is actually complete, and it’s really complete, too. There is so much depth and mystery in the different paths.
I suppose its complexity works against its mainstream appeal. The relationships develop much more organically than the typical “choose your boyfriend” pattern of the typical multipath VN.
(BTW, you should consider doing furry VN reviews on youtube. Your comments and criticism are always on point.)
this might be peak. (i lied it's peak). I'm crying over the complex commentary on everything included. I love all the references. i'm not even halfway down either, i've just just cedric (my goat) and luke's.
I just finished the Cedric's ending and I got some things to say *SPOILERS*. In a nutshell: I liked a lot this game, I think it has like the perfect balance between a hella complex story and a simple gay story, there were a lot of parts where I almost (should I say “just” instead?) cried because of the very well written dialogue. I need to say that the ending was a little bittersweet, a part of me thinking that it'd be cool to have a happier (and NSWF-er) ending, I mean I feel destroyed; but at the same time I liked it, not every story end happily, specially in a vn like this one where one of the main themes is the difference between reality and fiction, and dreams… Maybe some childhood crushes are meant to be just that…
idk if youll see this but *spoilers* you have to choose all cedric options that are not romance. I won't spoil it further than that, but it is still just as bittersweet as the romance option.
I think there aren't any nsfw scenes with him. To unlock the other endings you have to confront him when you're talking to him at the campfire. Then, depending on whether you were just friendly or chose the ❤️ options, you'll get its respective ending. If I remember correctly xd.
Does the 5$ bonus content pack have a guide route for the guys? I think I found a bug, when I'm playing Cedric's route right before we lose the battle with gravity against the void my game crashes here, no matter how many times I reload.
By the way, are there plans to make a sequel of this wonderful VN? I'd like to see more of Wes and the other guys, maybe see how the romances and friendships developed.
Wait, so is the Void the Teacher dying or his dream dying or does that not count since we were told that in the Void?
Edit: Love the Implication that Cedric didn't get distant, his other self did while he busy being Coraline & That's he's wrong about the Door Opening Twice
Do not be tricked into thinking this a review of the game; I am simply rambling because the game is so notable that I can't help but to get all of my half-baked thoughts pertaining to it out, before they fade away into the Primordial Aether.
This is the reason upon why I play these VNs. For many of them, you play them, and you find them to be not the most fun nor engaging. As if the writer couldn't properly translate their muse onto digital paper. I initially felt this was the case as the hook was notably weak. Though as I watched that lame prologue come back into play at very crucial parts of the story, and in some places become entirely meaningless in the widest scope of the plot, and then eventually tie itself neatly back together; I started to forge an idea in my mind just the scope of writing I was dealing with.
That is because (in my interpretation) The prologue was a false hook. You play through the prologue scene and just a bit after, and you think that this game is just going to be about another depressed gay dude going through college and eventually learning self acceptance via some belligerently generic suit of outcomes. But then you reach the true hook, which was stepping through the threshold into Peregrine. And as small swaths of that alternate existence become clear to you, you think to yourself "Hey, this isn't quite right..."
And just as you have time to realize that it's a subversion and start making assumptions about the direction and nature of the plot, it turns you topside under. And every once in a while, you guess correctly, leaving you very involved as a reader. It's interesting, because I describe this storyline as if it has a blindingly rapid pace, but it doesn't; the pace waxes and wanes in speed as if an orchestral notation. Or perhaps even it was written in a way to where it seems slow but is actually quite fast in the overall scope of the story.
Another thing that I quite enjoy is that the game doesn't take itself too seriously. In fact I'd proclaim that it is uniquely balanced in the way it juggles light and heavy topics to forge a delightful, almost random experience- a randomness that feels quite true and parallel to our reality. Shit just happens right? It's that mentality, but cranked up to 11 so as to fit the nature of an engaging plot. Now that doesn't mean it's overly dramatic, it's just telegraphed to the reader so that they can start to get a feel for the direction that the plot is taking.
Additionally, I like how much comradery and chemistry was simulated between the characters in such a short timespan. It's funny because you can tell that even the characters themselves feel that way in the end. And on the topic of the ending, I was a little sad but also refreshed at how bittersweet it was.
All in all, this game was music to my ears (not even mentioning the exemplary soundtrack), It was fantastically written and didn't overstay it's welcome. Thank you for providing me this experience and I hope to see that you have more tales being strewn onto the spinning wheel.
Hi phibbean ! I have a lot of people coming from this game in my bandcamp listening to my Komiku's stuff, so i want to thank you for using my free music in your game =) (Twitter DMs are broken, so sorry for the public thanks on itch comments, haha)
Ah thank you for the comment! Your music is incredible and lots of people have commented positively about it. Thanks for making free music, and I'm just glad I could direct some well-deserved attention towards it. :)
tengo un problema, no se si sea el juego o mi pc pero cuando estoy en la parte de el void (elegí el camino de remus) y despierto del sueño y voy hacia la puerta cuando intento abrirla el juego se me cierra...
Amazing work! I played the whole thing in some sort of fugue state, I feel like I got an ending and "woke up" from an incredible dream. Best of luck in all your future endeavors, and thank you for this!
I decided to come back to this almost a year later, and good god, that writing is still amazing. Cedric route just has hit after hit. Relatable struggles fill the whole game, but I wanted to cry at the Cedric leaves ending. It's such a complicated but sweet relationship, it feels like the true end, but there's just such high quality across the board, you can say that about almost any of the endings. (They're all great! Just that some spoiler-y ones like staying with Remus are fairly unlikely. But at the same time, when you go through the route leading up to it, it makes sense y'know? So like from Kieran as a general character/concept, probably not, but for Kieran and co. from that timeline it makes sense?) Idk. I just knew that there was a good reason I kept this downloaded instead of deleted once I finished the main route(s) of the characters I was most interested in. Cedric, as he develops, just feels so real, vulnerable, and just indescribable. I feel their dynamic as best friends who grew up together, the awkwardness of trying to make things work, and how in some routes that awkwardness and tension ultimately remains. It's unfortunate but realistic that Kieran and the whole rest of the gang don't really stay in touch in any of the routes.
I like how the end of Cedric's route even goes into interesting details like how they had lasting trauma after y'know almost dying, something many VNs don't really acknowledge.
Cedric and Kieran's final scene on his route also just hurts. It's sweet and there's some hope, there's some stuff there, but there's also pieces that let the reader decide for themselves if they think anything will come out of all of this. Thematically, perhaps not. But there's that flare of hope, that beacon I simply must reach out towards. Maybe that's just my own remnants of hope for a clean future that saves us. One that Cedric denies exists.
That's one of the interesting things about him, he's constantly changing and you see that especially on his route. He struggles with his own self worth and personhood to an extent and there's just so much there to dig into, it's absolutely amazing.
Almost a year later, and this still holds up fantastically. Hope you're doing well out there wherever you are, despite the not very active Twitter.
I just finished some of the routes and damn… What lovely storytelling! Kudos to the author, you really made my heart move multiple times throughout the novel. I love the character design so much, it’s so pleasant to look at. This is easily one of the top-tier VNs out there! Looking forward if ever you have more in store for us, author!
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crying crying crying crying crying crying crying
Hoping that this gets a sequel someday
Just finished Cedric's route, and I'm so charmed by this VN! So many twists and turns, I love their dynamic. SO much praise for this story, art, and music choices! I read it out loud and some of the music was timed perfectly with the story beats, especially near the climax! I will try to finish the other routes if I can tide my feelings for best boy Cedric. Raucous applause!
This made me feel so many emotions oh my god.. i love this vn so much i cant explain it (ps i reccomend playing casual by chappel roan while playing wes route it fits him so much) I CANT LIVE WITHOUT THIS VN I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!! RAHHH I KNEW IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO DOWNLOAD THIS VN PLEASE MAKE MORE VNS IM BEGGING YOU
That's the approach I took with Wes.
First I thought you had to confront him to get a good ending, but that's just not what I'd do if I were Kieran, so I just chose the way I would manage that situation. Good thing it ended up all right. It amazes me the way Phibbean understands people's minds, and can predict logical outcomes from the way we handdle our relationships... I'll have to take the other (extreme) approach later just to see what changes.
ive lost count of how many times ive played this and how many emotions ive felt
sometimes i open up this page and just contemplate if i should put myself through this again T0T it's so good but so emotionally heavy for me
Gosh, this reminds me of the Chronicles of Narnia. It's hard for me to say to describe how this story made me feel, about imagination, about self-identity ...... It was like a mirror that made me rethink what I wanted as a child, and it's not like I pushed myself into a well.
Everyone's stories are again so beautiful and moving ...... I love this game as much as I love people with good intentions and fairy tales in general.
Thank you to all the creators who made peregrine better with reality and the world everyone lives in.😭❤
my fav FVN of all times
How to unlock the last CG
It's from Luke's love route. Agree with him and support him more. Pick the "Kiss him" option on the beach.
ok,thank you
Is it translated into Spanish?
"Too bad this VN with actually competent writing, a breathtaking story, and good humor has NO PORN ART in it! 0/10, won't recommend" - Furries, I guess.
On a more serious note, this VN is receiving way less attention than it should.
I'm not going to pretend it's the best thing ever - there are some minor caveats, but all downsides are greatly out-weighted by the upsides.
The writing style is actually good - it's easy to read, it's not wasting your time, the humor is light and funny, the characters are interesting, the erotic scenes are genuinely well-written, you get plenty of choices on how to play through the story, and there's a whole bunch of endings that are not decided in the last 3 minutes of the plot.
Easy recommendation, do check it out!
This is my favorite VN that is actually complete, and it’s really complete, too. There is so much depth and mystery in the different paths.
I suppose its complexity works against its mainstream appeal. The relationships develop much more organically than the typical “choose your boyfriend” pattern of the typical multipath VN.
(BTW, you should consider doing furry VN reviews on youtube. Your comments and criticism are always on point.)
screaming. crying. throwing up.
i love
this might be peak. (i lied it's peak). I'm crying over the complex commentary on everything included. I love all the references. i'm not even halfway down either, i've just just cedric (my goat) and luke's.
How do I get the other Cg for Cedric where he isn't kissing him 😭 (It's been hours but I can't figure it out)
when you're convincing him to drop the [spoilers] choose the option that doesn't have a heart next to it
I just finished the Cedric's ending and I got some things to say *SPOILERS*. In a nutshell: I liked a lot this game, I think it has like the perfect balance between a hella complex story and a simple gay story, there were a lot of parts where I almost (should I say “just” instead?) cried because of the very well written dialogue. I need to say that the ending was a little bittersweet, a part of me thinking that it'd be cool to have a happier (and NSWF-er) ending, I mean I feel destroyed; but at the same time I liked it, not every story end happily, specially in a vn like this one where one of the main themes is the difference between reality and fiction, and dreams… Maybe some childhood crushes are meant to be just that…
idk if youll see this but *spoilers* you have to choose all cedric options that are not romance. I won't spoil it further than that, but it is still just as bittersweet as the romance option.
Woah woah woah I just got an ending where Cedric leaves butt idk how to unlock any of Cedric's other endings and idek if there's Nfsws with him, help😭
I think there aren't any nsfw scenes with him. To unlock the other endings you have to confront him when you're talking to him at the campfire. Then, depending on whether you were just friendly or chose the ❤️ options, you'll get its respective ending. If I remember correctly xd.
Jesus Christ I replayed the game a bunch of times but I stumbled on the route-less path just now. Don't know how I missed it for so long.
I'm not sure if this is how Remus' path goes but the sequence in the void was actually crazy.
this game is absolutely amazing. play it
So... the king of nerds is your mind, the male feminist is your heart, and the alpha chad is your body?
Does the 5$ bonus content pack have a guide route for the guys? I think I found a bug, when I'm playing Cedric's route right before we lose the battle with gravity against the void my game crashes here, no matter how many times I reload.
By the way, are there plans to make a sequel of this wonderful VN? I'd like to see more of Wes and the other guys, maybe see how the romances and friendships developed.
It does
Im so glad I found the Luke route, him > Wes, Wish there was a Cedric route, he feels barren despite having the most story
Edit: Found it, it's the best one
There is a cedric route
I'd play this game 5 times and still miss something
Bro please tell me how, he always texts that he's too busy
You need to choose the option to talk to him instead of sparring
thanks man
Wait, so is the Void the Teacher dying or his dream dying or does that not count since we were told that in the Void?
Edit: Love the Implication that Cedric didn't get distant, his other self did while he busy being Coraline & That's he's wrong about the Door Opening Twice
SPOILERS AHEAD
Do not be tricked into thinking this a review of the game; I am simply rambling because the game is so notable that I can't help but to get all of my half-baked thoughts pertaining to it out, before they fade away into the Primordial Aether.
This is the reason upon why I play these VNs. For many of them, you play them, and you find them to be not the most fun nor engaging. As if the writer couldn't properly translate their muse onto digital paper. I initially felt this was the case as the hook was notably weak. Though as I watched that lame prologue come back into play at very crucial parts of the story, and in some places become entirely meaningless in the widest scope of the plot, and then eventually tie itself neatly back together; I started to forge an idea in my mind just the scope of writing I was dealing with.
That is because (in my interpretation) The prologue was a false hook. You play through the prologue scene and just a bit after, and you think that this game is just going to be about another depressed gay dude going through college and eventually learning self acceptance via some belligerently generic suit of outcomes. But then you reach the true hook, which was stepping through the threshold into Peregrine. And as small swaths of that alternate existence become clear to you, you think to yourself "Hey, this isn't quite right..."
And just as you have time to realize that it's a subversion and start making assumptions about the direction and nature of the plot, it turns you topside under. And every once in a while, you guess correctly, leaving you very involved as a reader. It's interesting, because I describe this storyline as if it has a blindingly rapid pace, but it doesn't; the pace waxes and wanes in speed as if an orchestral notation. Or perhaps even it was written in a way to where it seems slow but is actually quite fast in the overall scope of the story.
Another thing that I quite enjoy is that the game doesn't take itself too seriously. In fact I'd proclaim that it is uniquely balanced in the way it juggles light and heavy topics to forge a delightful, almost random experience- a randomness that feels quite true and parallel to our reality. Shit just happens right? It's that mentality, but cranked up to 11 so as to fit the nature of an engaging plot. Now that doesn't mean it's overly dramatic, it's just telegraphed to the reader so that they can start to get a feel for the direction that the plot is taking.
Additionally, I like how much comradery and chemistry was simulated between the characters in such a short timespan. It's funny because you can tell that even the characters themselves feel that way in the end. And on the topic of the ending, I was a little sad but also refreshed at how bittersweet it was.
All in all, this game was music to my ears (not even mentioning the exemplary soundtrack), It was fantastically written and didn't overstay it's welcome. Thank you for providing me this experience and I hope to see that you have more tales being strewn onto the spinning wheel.
So if you died irl, you'd be unable to leave?
Hi phibbean !
I have a lot of people coming from this game in my bandcamp listening to my Komiku's stuff, so i want to thank you for using my free music in your game =)
(Twitter DMs are broken, so sorry for the public thanks on itch comments, haha)
Ah thank you for the comment! Your music is incredible and lots of people have commented positively about it. Thanks for making free music, and I'm just glad I could direct some well-deserved attention towards it. :)
Thanks, phibeean, that's sweet =) hit me if you need anything music related !
Update for anyone who's been following my lost account saga: I have access to this account again!
tengo un problema, no se si sea el juego o mi pc pero cuando estoy en la parte de el void (elegí el camino de remus) y despierto del sueño y voy hacia la puerta cuando intento abrirla el juego se me cierra...
a alguien mas le pasa lo mismo? TT
**have
how many days does this has?
Got through all the endings. Thoroughly enjoyable! Here's hoping you write more!
incredible writing! please say you're working on more projects!
Amazing work! I played the whole thing in some sort of fugue state, I feel like I got an ending and "woke up" from an incredible dream. Best of luck in all your future endeavors, and thank you for this!
SPOILERS:
I decided to come back to this almost a year later, and good god, that writing is still amazing. Cedric route just has hit after hit. Relatable struggles fill the whole game, but I wanted to cry at the Cedric leaves ending. It's such a complicated but sweet relationship, it feels like the true end, but there's just such high quality across the board, you can say that about almost any of the endings. (They're all great! Just that some spoiler-y ones like staying with Remus are fairly unlikely. But at the same time, when you go through the route leading up to it, it makes sense y'know? So like from Kieran as a general character/concept, probably not, but for Kieran and co. from that timeline it makes sense?) Idk. I just knew that there was a good reason I kept this downloaded instead of deleted once I finished the main route(s) of the characters I was most interested in. Cedric, as he develops, just feels so real, vulnerable, and just indescribable. I feel their dynamic as best friends who grew up together, the awkwardness of trying to make things work, and how in some routes that awkwardness and tension ultimately remains. It's unfortunate but realistic that Kieran and the whole rest of the gang don't really stay in touch in any of the routes.
I like how the end of Cedric's route even goes into interesting details like how they had lasting trauma after y'know almost dying, something many VNs don't really acknowledge.
Cedric and Kieran's final scene on his route also just hurts. It's sweet and there's some hope, there's some stuff there, but there's also pieces that let the reader decide for themselves if they think anything will come out of all of this. Thematically, perhaps not. But there's that flare of hope, that beacon I simply must reach out towards. Maybe that's just my own remnants of hope for a clean future that saves us. One that Cedric denies exists.
That's one of the interesting things about him, he's constantly changing and you see that especially on his route. He struggles with his own self worth and personhood to an extent and there's just so much there to dig into, it's absolutely amazing.
Almost a year later, and this still holds up fantastically. Hope you're doing well out there wherever you are, despite the not very active Twitter.
10/10 i am deeply sad and relate to every character
Does anyone know how to get the NSFW Scenes to work, I just get a black screen with text even though I have the option turned on
oh theres no nsfw cg lol
I just finished some of the routes and damn… What lovely storytelling! Kudos to the author, you really made my heart move multiple times throughout the novel. I love the character design so much, it’s so pleasant to look at. This is easily one of the top-tier VNs out there! Looking forward if ever you have more in store for us, author!