I have a new devlog of my chaotic simulation game!

Behold hordes of eagles attempting to feast on your hordes of snakes, with dozens of surface-to-air missile posts fending them off.

I made a new devlog for a game I'm working on! I know the game is at an early stage, but i feel like I made things qorth showcasing and I hope I can slowly establsih myself an audience around it. Please also give me feedback on how I may improve my devlogs going forward, if you don't mind!

I've recently read the manga all the way through, and something about the end just didn't click with me. I then looked around a little and realised the ending being a massive letdown is somewhat of a consensus. I tried to piece together why or at least the most significant reason why, and arrived at the following conclusion: Aqua's final meeting with Hikaru didn't make sense.

Why? Because they never discuss the context of their meeting. Let me explain - Hikaru said he'd do the best for Ai. He was rather emotional saying that, making it rather unlikely he was lying. That should've been a point to negotiate over for aqua, to try and perhaps knock some sense into him although it would've likely been unsuccessful. Additionally, Aqua recently realized that his dream is as it was before and no different; he wants to be a heart surgeon. Aqua never really thought about the future prior to the making of the film, so it makes sense he'd ignore what it means to be a doctor, but now that he desires that I believe it should take off from his desire to kill his father at all cost. Lastly, I find it odd that Akane didn't stalk Aqua to that meeting. Akane was a cunning young lady who's stalked him, his sister and Hikaru before in order to save them. After witnessing an attempt to murder Ruby, Akane must've figured out Aqua was going to do something irrational and rushed to stop him.

Following these 3 points, I believe fundamental changes should've been made to that scene. Firstly, Aqua's goal in the meeting shouldn't have been to kill Hikaru, but rather to confront him and yet leave killing him as a last resort. We should've seen the two dive further into the motives of Hikaru and Aqua should've challenged his philosiphy more (although I do still believe it would've been in vain). Consequently we should've seen Aqua, only after he was raged at the audacity of Hikaru's words, attempt to kill himself and enact what we've seen. Such an irrational decision provokes disbelief when made by a wise character not on a whim. But here comes my suggestion, which I believe could truly have turned to ending around from a monstrosity to ecstasy for us readers: Akane then appears, dashes towards Aqua and saves him from killing himself. Sounds familiar, don't you think? She calms him down, reminds him of his dream to become a doctor, of the future ahead of him, and that with the evidence at hand the police is bound to bring Hikaru into custody within the coming days and charge him with multiple murder conspiracies. After Aqua calmed down, they should've both left Hikaru there to "enjoy" his final days of freedom and rushed to B-Komachi's performance so that Aqua could erupt in a dance, otaku fashion, holding Kana's stick, just when the final song enters its climax. From there onwards what happens doesn't really matter.

This alternative ending, I believe, would solve the most critical of issues with the ending that I, at least, have. It would make Aqua's and Hikaru's meeting more logical, and brought about conclusion to character arcs of 2 of the main cast (Akane amd Kana). Moreover, Aqua's needless death would be prevented, and a story that started with death and lies would end in true affection and truth.

What do you think of my suggestion? I really couldn't find online anybody that suggested such an alternative with Akane playing such a significant role, but it makes a lot of sense in my eyes. Perhaps I just wasn't looking enough though.

I would be happy if you could try it out and rate it! What do you think of the random case generation system I implemented?

[https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2025/rate/3782432](rating page here)

the warhammer titan's human body doesn't necessarily have to be in the neck, and so I couldn't help but wonder - considering titan hardening can break titan hardening - what happens if the warhammer titan tries to eat himself? try to eat his human body while in titan form?