I think this is genuinely a beautiful story. It could have been better if a lot of things weren't cut, like the multiple endings and different romantic interest options, and I think it would've been fun if they had kept Fang more edgy instead of softening her personality.

Setting, story, music, and some of the characters even are very good. I do think Fang and Reed are the best characters. The rest are not great, and some (particularly Trish and Sage) are almost simply identical in personality. I would say, though, the issues with most of the characters is ironically not really that important, as the story is almost exclusively a snapshot in the final(?) moments of Fang's life (at least of her life as depicted in the game), and it shows enough to work well for that, for the most part. I think the D&D bits could've been reduced a little, but they're not game-breakingly horrible, but I'm not going to lie, I skipped some of that. I'll just kind of say that it could've been a lot better if it weren't for being rushed and having so much re-written and cut, but it is still honestly pretty good. Just the concept of the setting, having dinosaurs that are the literal dinos of our ancient history is simply an awesome setup, and putting an angsty goth teen as your main character facing such a disaster is multi-layered genius. And I'll say that I basically played this game side-by-side, going back and forth between the two, with Snoot Game, and while I do think the other game is pretty good as well, I think GVH is genuinely a much better story.

So, what I really want to get to is the ending. It's pretty important to note the game was supposed to have three endings (from what I've read, at least), and in one of them, everyone survives. The released single ending leaves it ambiguous, although heavily, heavily implies they all probably die. It would mostly depend if Caldera Bay was literally the spot that got hit or was very near the asteroid impact site. Which, given the game's pretty depressing tones, isn't an unreasonable assumption to make. But, assuming it's not, and since the game wants to make such a strong parallel to the actual asteroid that lead to the dinosaurs' extinction, we can make a lot of assumptions about what happens in the game based on what happened with the real asteroid. The main thing is that most of the dinosaurs were "fine" after the immediate hit, as they didn't really extinct entirely for tens of thousands of years after from climate change and hunger. So, what happened immediately after the impact was mainly a tsunami that was simply the largest in Earth's history and makes the largest megatsunami of our modern times look like zygotes in comparison. It had waves up to 2.8 miles high, traveled about 45,000 miles per hour over water, and could travel at least 125 miles inland once it hit land, but probably more. I couldn't find a good number on how fast it would travel once it hit inland, but I estimated by proportionally comparing it to other tsunamis and how much energy they lose once they hit land, and my guess it probably would go 1,000 miles per hour once hitting land. But very importantly, while it did hit basically every coastal area on the planet, it didn't hit it uniformly at the same time - it took about 48 hours for the waves to affect all coastal areas. So, depending on where exactly Caldera Bay is on the coastline of the game, it is entirely possible that the asteroid hit somewhere else, they're all surprised they're alive, they check the news, and then are informed, "Hey, giant tsunami traveling worldwide, flee the coast," and they hop in Reed's van and flee. Since the game did originally have an ending where everyone lives, this is my headcanon so I can sleep easy at night and not cry like a giant manbaby. ;_;

Last I'll say about it as well, since, again, we can assume the asteroid would affect these fictional dinos in the same way as it did the real ones since they want to make that parallel, it's inconceivable that a civilization with fully human-equivalent intelligence and society, science, technology, engineering, would starve and die in the same was as our real dinosaurs did. Real dinosaurs were simply animals, and died because a t-rex can't hop in a boat and go tuna fishing or drive a farm tractor. In the fictional Pangea, it's basically counter to common sense to say they all die. Birds are descendants of dinosaurs, and they're alive today, so how come a society of intelligent, sentient dinos who have science and can fish and farm, how come they would die? Unless they later nuke themselves or something, they would probably live up to human times, just as birds did. That's what I roll with in my head. It's happier that way.