it's taken me several weeks to gather my thoughts on this game. after my first hour or so of playtime, i was pretty convinced that i would get filtered by this game and that it straight up was not meant for me, but i ended up drastically wrong in that assessment.
i think that, in writing this kind of story, its easier to tend toward one of two extremes: either of making its characters legible, explaining away or excusing all of their worst qualities in a kind of falsely reassuring way, or on the other hand, just veering totally off the nihilism cliff and saying that nothing matters because everything is hopeless and nothing better is possible.
i found that this story somehow rejects both of these frames. dancing between them, the characters arent made to justify themselves for who they are, yet theyre still made to be accountable for their actions because eachother are all they have; theyre allowed to just be human. seeing this portrayed so sincerely opened up a lot of space for me to look honestly at myself and not be so afraid of what i might find. this is really a huge relief especially when it feels like everything else in life is telling you to go in the opposite direction. wherever im headed, your art at least shows that its possible to come out the other side. thank you for sharing it. <3