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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 9.8 hrs on record
Posted: 22 Jun, 2018 @ 10:00am

It's something that really stroke me hard. As disclaimer says, it's not suitable for children or for anyone who is easily disturbed, especially people with mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety. However, I suffer from both and I can say for sure this game is not for everyone, but it's really special in my heart.

This game makes us scared not only from the things we see and read themselves, but more about ourselves. Making such powerful stories and characters and satirizing both VN and horror games, Salvato could bring us something I'd not expect for a silly game of this nature: thoughts. So many thoughts I'm having right now while I write this and listen to "Your Reality" (credits song). As one of the poems says, we are monsters. We devour, step onto, consume others like we're superior than everyone... Just because our bias makes us think our sorrow is bigger and more important than the others... But the game crushes every expectation and delivers us nothing out of our initial efforts, just delivering one real thing out of an imaginary world: nothing. Yes, a rather nihilistic perspective of life, which is nothing has real meaning, and we just justify our actions by excuses, but, in the end, we're all just too selfish to give up and kill ourselves... On the other hand, we can make our own meaning, even it's selfish, valorizing our neighborhood and being understanding who are suffering out there.
Maybe you can save a person just saying "see you tomorrow" or listen for what they have to say.
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4 Comments
Wren 15 Jun, 2019 @ 2:42am 
Deeply unfortunate spelling error in the first line
Aventus 15 Jul, 2018 @ 1:37pm 
Brilliant review.
Wasserlöwe 3 Jul, 2018 @ 1:16pm 
Wow, this really made me think again about my experience with the game.
As you said, no one would expect such an experience coming out of what looks like a cute little VN. I for myself had moments in the game where I just sat down for a moment to think about what I just read. And this review boils down what the game brings the player at the end: thoughts.
Thoughts about us, about our surroundings. Thoughts about what we are and what we get. And in the end we all get something different out of these thoughts. And maybe we can use them to help us or the ones around us. Maybe there will be this person who needs that "See you tomorrow!" And then we can be at their side to help them.
ThatNerdyShow 27 Jun, 2018 @ 9:55pm 
Very well said!