Whoops! Yeah, I actually thought about PMing you to avoid spoilers, or using the spoiler code, but I don't know if there is one or how to use it... I hope it wasn't too bad. I'm very glad that you liked the music! The battle is hard, I admit - I experimented with various mechanics and chose one that I thought was optimal, but now, though battle is winnable by normal means, obviously it's still too hard, and dissonates with generally calm spirit of the rest of the game, like mkapolk mentioned. Yess, the strange narrative part is something I had in my mind - I designed the protagonist as nettle, yet the story implies that you're not actually a "true" member of the nettle thicket. In fact the closest interpretation, in my opinion, is that you ARE an observer, outsider, but through your imagination and force of belief you imagine yourself a nettle and dive into the nettle "grove". In the process of imagining yourself a plant, you go through such stages as assimilation with and respect of their culture, getting familiar with other kinds of plants - strangely, by "fighting" them, but it's still a form of interaction, and the calendulas aren't enemies here actually, they are just "another" type of plant society which IS present, but which you don't wish to explore for now. So, then you want to study nettles more, and you return to them, this time merging with them better and becoming a "full-time member" :) It does resemble a myth in a way, yes, now it's very interesting that you mentioned it, since I am a philologist and it's very exciting for me to read an analysis of my game based on narratology! It's not strictly an "initiation of a character" though, it's more like merging with a tribe by learning their ways. There's something "ethnological" about this game - normaly plants can be studied in ethnobotany - their usage by tribes etc., but here the PLANT has its tribe! The battle is not necessary for initiation, it's just something you encountered during your travels, but thanks to that battle and your desire to return, you earn respect from nettles! There's also an interesting thing, a bit of a secret - the two dancing nettles are the young (violet) and old (olive) plants, while your character is a green nettle in the prime of life - I did it mostly just for diversity, but it may be hard to notice, and you are free to interpret the presence of differently aged nettles as you wish!