Alex in Doodle Land

i think something is wrong with lipstick... Icon is empty and i can't put it into the drawer...

this game is definitely filled with love and passion:3
I reached the scene when shapeshifters make their show, but I can't read whats written on the screen, it's waaay too fast:((

Okay, I just got the good ending! Now, how do I get the bad one?

So..
I...like this game.
Let's be fair though, I'd love it if it was cleaned up more, I don't mean visually or partially, I mean the plot needs a whole clean up.
Things just spike in intensity and one moment Rin will be this sane, okay-ish person and the other she's portrayed as comically evil and so insane she'll believe a fucking play is the equivalent of prediction.

The moral is very obvious, be nice @peacesign live laugh love yatta yatta but it's just too obvious, the game is always short of screaming you in the face with the fact everybody's cuckoo and needs to get their shit together, that is until it actually just screams it at you in the end.

I get where the story is going and what it's pointing towards, what the characters are supposed to be, but that -- in a narratively focused and driven game -- is not enough.

The game never says why Alex is such a bitch and how she hasn't noticed or why Rin is so cowardly or what lead Sally to be so clingy.
I mean it genuinely when I say that I want to like these characters, for RPGmaker games they are good characters with good story beats but I can't because I don't know them, relate to them.
I also don't need the game to scream it at me in the ending or the start, I need to know them through bits, and get an idea even if general of what they specifically are like, I shouldn't be able to summarize the characters into 1 or 2 words, I have to be evoked into detailing them and I just can't do that with these characters.

The puzzles...oh the puzzles...these alone triple the playtime and have been the bane of my existence for the last 3 days, oh my god these are probably the most outlandish or excruciatingly confusing puzzles I've ever played and I hate them, all of them with no exception.

And yet, the art is good and conveys the characters well, the setting is, though extreme, very lovely and (really can't say this about most stories, especially rpgmakers) I love the moral.

I'll give you the most solid piece of advice, get someone brutally honest you know, have them play the game, and wait for 10 minutes before giving any hints on any puzzles.

If I had to rate it to the dystopian objective star rating that itch uses, it's a fair 4.2/5, and a redux with the above problems solved would get anywhere from a 4.7-5/5 depending on execution.

But since I'm not fuckin' lame I have my own, genuine rating for this game.
A Selly stuck on screen/10

that's not exactly a good thing to happen, but who's to say really?

Okay, girl, a WHAT on a stool? (A doll, it turned out to be.)

Also, I couldn't put said cake on the bed, either. I need to interact with the sparkle instead of the bed itself? Strange.

UPDATE: All I need now is the other beauty appliance besides the lipstick...

Stuck on the doll password puzzle, a hint?