Of Piers & Bays

Hoo boy, this VN made my stomach churn.  I keep thinking about the quip a part of me made during the scene where we first meet adult Lynnie: "Boy am I glad that she's in there and that we're out here!"  That is to say, the writing hit very, very close to home~

God, that whole sequence of Mel slowly, agonizingly making her way back to her and Lynnie's apartment, her dread and anxiety mounting higher and higher with each second that passes and each step towards her front door... Simply brilliant.  Having had moments exactly like that in the past, I can safely say you've captured the experience PERFECTLY here—and the same is true just as much for the shitshow that unfolds after Mel goes inside as much as everything beforehand, heheheheh~

For that matter, everything with the Gumitochi is excellently executed, being both in perfect harmony with the story's themes and absolutely awful to watch unfold~  In particular, not only is the writing great, but the art!  That One CG of Lynnie hit me like a fucking jumpscare; I physically recoiled a bit at the sight of it, and I looooove that it was that intense and powerful~

Fantastic work, seriously!

Great game!

look im sorry to stop the streak of the all the paragraphs here (seriously, scroll down and look) but I really did like this game and pulled me into the dream-like state of "everything is fucking up and I need to die NOW" feeling i sometimes get. another 3 pointer for toxic yuri

Of Piers And Bays is phenomonal. A girl who clearly has a lifetime of trauma is deep into her depression, and completely dependant on her fish-coded girlfriend. (Well. They're both fish-coded, in a way.)

A girl should leave. A girl should get help. A girl's mind is breaking at the seams. You can feed your fish and play with it!

Amazing writing as always, Isahime 

everything felt like torn pieces of paper, crumpled and folded and unable to be straightened out. i'm filled with the kind of existential dread that only exists in a dream where you find out whatever horrific predicament you think youre in is painfully, miserably real--at least until you wake up.

can I buy merch of eileen

That was tuna-riffic! ...but seriously, this was amazingly well written. I knew I was in for something really special from the prelude, which really grabbed me (or hooked me? ...). Reading Mel's absolute dread of returning home was... a lot. But in a good way. And the way that you were able to write the horrible, suffocating feeling of losing your agency, your humanity like that, the stifling feeling of Mel and Lynnie's entire relationship... it's brilliant, honestly.  Thank you for making this!

Rlly love this. To echo other people, this hurt in a way that felt close to home (I cannot stress enough that this is a good thing to me). It has a very 'lived in' feeling. The prose also has this relentless quality to it in a way that made it feel like I was being gripped (this is also a good thing).

The Gumitochi scene was insane and also really hot. The stripping away of agency during it is both narratively compelling and hot.

Thank u for this.

Tremendous. The music and art were wonderful. The writing was engaging, its prose serving both purpose and entertainment. The subject matter and its execution were delightful. Several times through-out I found myself making exclamations, rarely does something affect me so strongly. Thank you very much for sharing.

this one hits a bit too close to home. yea the fish part. but like the other thing too. brilliant way to mix in the absurd and the real. the omnipresent feeling of something watching a person come apart. yae

amazing story truly beautiful work. thank you for writing this

OUUUGHHH LYNNIE the most painful part, is as a bpd-haver (not trying to diagnose her or anything btw just tryna relate), i understand her fear of abandonment + how its just so ingrained even in childhood.... i can feel empathy for her but at the same time, PUT DOWN THE FISH TOY.... LET MEL BREATHE.... GOOD GOD... which btw that scene was written So Well and is probably one of the most original erotic scenarios i've ever read. lowkey i wanted it to happen so i'm glad it did. but yeah, i enjoyed it a lot!! it was tunatastic! <3

Man... Lynnie is such a tough character to swallow. The dynamic between the two is biting, in the rip-your-flesh-off kind of way; it hurts to see Mel treated that way, but of all the things Lynnie might be deserving of, betrayal isn't one. I had a pit in my stomach during the transformation scene, wondering if there was going to be some real assumption of responsibility, a come to Jesus moment. Well...

It's incredibly hard to articulate this feeling, but the overall affect in the prose and the art come together perfectly. Every element gels into one cohesive work. I greatly enjoyed this, thanks for sharing.

Delightfully dreadful,, idk if i've had a game put a smile on my face only to tear it away so fast only for me to fall for it again and again like a wave in the ocean. i want to dive back into it again regardless. Lynnie and Mel feel so real so it hurts even harder,, lovely and beautiful game^^ tuna-tastic even

nowadays there are very few games that make me have to stand up, pace around, lie down, think for a while if i want to continue, and of course do. there's a lot of 'dancing around' that was both in-game and done to my heart in this one. i adored every second i agonized over this.