Dancing with Shadows: Prologue
Dancing with Shadows: Prologue is a 2D dark fantasy visual novel with CYOA-influenced branching storylines. Guide three protagonists through an interlocked and inexorably connected storyline. There are no wrong answers, but your decisions have consequences.
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Dancing with Shadows: Prologue is the first installment of an episodic dark fantasy visual novel with CYOA-influenced branching storylines, romantic routes, and many different endings.
Guide three protagonists through a storyline left for you to untangle. Your choices don't just shape the outcome of the story, they shape the personas of the protagonists you control.
This first installation in a four-part story offers a complete narrative arc and serves as the foundation for a larger story. This game is designed to be played multiple times.
Romantic routes dynamically evolve across paths, with three (or perhaps four) potential love interests to discover.
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There are no wrong answers, but every answer carries weight.
Features
Dancing with Shadows: Prologue features 3 different protagonists and 3 primary love interests. These stories play out in sequence, and the choices you make one one path affect the next in sequence.
Decisions made in Dancing with Shadows: Prologue effect the identity of the protagonist you control within the story.
The story contains many branching paths, which are determined by the choices you make as the protagonist you control. These choices results in many different possible endings, some of which are carefully hidden.
The dialogue of Dancing with Shadows: Prologue contains 1,474 lines and 14,403 words.
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