I think I first played this game back when it was a WIP on Dashingdon sometime in 2017 or so. I played it and had a great time with the 7 chapters that existed at the time, forgot about it, returned to it a couple years later, realized it was now monetized, and promptly forgot about it again. (No hate on paid games - just couldn’t buy it at the time.) I then remembered CoG was a thing about two weeks ago, dug up my old account, and purchased Totem Force, excited to see both the old parts of the game I loved and the new parts I hadn’t ever seen.
Suffice it to say I was NOT disappointed. This game is charming, fun, witty, and all around a good time. I think I played through at least 12 times trying to romance everyone and get all the endings. (Speaking of which, I LOVED the romance paths - Kay’s and Ryu’s especially, but I had a good time with Anara/Chi and Sammy as well. They added a lot of flavor to the story and were also just really sweet and fun. All of these characters are very interesting…in their own way, which made every single romance route intriguing.)
The fact that some of the flavor text changes depending on your stats/armor/other stuff - even though it’s relatively small things - really sold the game for me (ex. the MC being able to figure out the suppression field logistics on their own if you have decently high Mind at the very beginning, or Kay and Anara/Chi eventually being able to communicate in armor if you have high Friendship.) I think that shows a great deal of care was taken throughout the story to ensure the player knows that their choices matter. Plus, each stat having its own advantages (but not to the point one was clearly better than another) made stat balancing really fun - on my 100% runs, getting to see each differing game made for some really fun, fresh playthroughs.
This game was the first game I ever went through the code for because I was just so intrigued as to how some of the stats worked (and also I kept screwing up my 0% runs and was trying to figure out how to get all the deus ex machinas). The “darkness” stat was definitely fun to see (and successful at unnerving me during an actual “evil” playthrough), as well as Ryu’s relationship stats. He’s probably one of my faves, the tsundere.
If you’re still taking bug reports - I think there might have been a couple bugs (?) that still snuck through (if not, feel free to ignore this!)
I let Anara die, so most of the dialogue she otherwise has in this scene doesn’t appear…except for the last line, which I assume shouldn’t be there. The same thing happens with Chi, too, if he is the one you fight in Chapter 9.
If you’re in a relationship with Ryu, he says, “If you
trust me - love me - please let me do this.” This is from a playthrough where I wasn’t dating him (but still had a good relationship with him), so was it supposed to just say, “If you
trust me, please let me do this,” or is it something else?
Anyway, I could gush about this game for hours, but I’d probably break the CoG forum’s character limit, so I’ll just end it here and say: you did a really impressive job with this game, and if you ever do make a sequel, I’d be very excited to read/play it!! 
