This was an amazing, horrifying, beautiful and viscerally painful game. It showed me the wonders of nature and companionship but also the ugliness and depravity of humanity. I entered thinking the story would be about the protagonist mourning loss... and I was right but not in the way I expected.
Everything started clicking when she spoke to the boy at the park. This is a story about childhood memories tainted by betrayal. This is a story about letting go of a home haunted by the living. This is a story about existential dread and loneliness. This is a story about facing illogical, systematic hatred and cruelty. This is a story about trying to overcome all your trauma and learning to live without shame of who you are.
It's ironic; Winter is the season associated with death and endings, Spring is for rebirth and new beginnings. But this? This is the end of Summer. And it hurt worse than any heat wave. But it wasn't pain from senseless violence. It was a love letter to everyone who has ever suffered from these self-doubts and injustices. Thank you for creating this masterpiece.