Hm... I think you changed my life a little bit?

I fear I won't have the words I might've had if I wrote this right after my first playthrough... I'd been meaning to wait until I'd seen all the content, but it was never the right time to play something so special and then several months passed (this is a problem of mine).

This game found me during a lost, floating time in my sense of identity. I'd broken up with my girlfriend after trying to be the kind of lesbian I thought I was supposed to be and failing. I'd been making do wearing identities that were 'close enough'.

I think this game might have been the first time I really, truly, all at once got that feeling of "That's me. That's what I want. That's what I want to be."

Clearly, I'm some kind of mecha-oriented sexual deviant.

But you know, it's been several months since my first playthrough, and it's definitely been one of my sexiest, loviest, happiest semesters on record, and I think I'm gonna have to give you guys a little bit of the blame.

The way this game is written is truly beautiful. So much history, so many concepts, so many words in new contexts, so much strange poetry, at first I am so lost and confused and so much slips by me, but I swim in it so long I start to understand the patterns, and then it feels like I understand everything. I feel like I get it in my heart.

So I guess that's one way that form follows function.

(Also, I'm stealing those writing techniques as we speak.)

So this is less of a review and more of a thank you. Thank you for writing, thank you for sharing, thank you for being like this.

Now, with (and without) your blessing, I'm off to be one of the worst girls the world has ever known.