This game was the first game in a while to make me cry. The characters were so real, and this game really hit me hard. I will probably never forget the experience I had when playing this.
Thank you. Not just for this game, but for keeping on. Alex'll figure it out.. I have hope I will too. Her dad reminds me of my Grandma. It's been a rough time.. but I'm an adult now. And I get to make the choice all my own.
I just finished this game and let me say, it was one of the most emotional games ive played. Talking to john was terrifying and the way it glitched. This game is perfect!
I loved this game. I didn't realize I was trans until grad school, so I maybe saw more of myself in Laguna than Alex, but there was something so wonderfully nostalgic about how early Internet communities are shown here.
I finished this game just a couple of hours ago, and before playing, I was still doubting if I realy wanted to be trans, I it was the right thing to do ect, I'm not in the case of Alex(like family ect), but I reconized myself a lot in every advice given by Laguna, I almost cried several times, and now I'm sure of what I want to do.
I have a very close friend, like a sister to me that is in the same situation (At the time I post this , her comment is very close to this one)
I absolutly recommend this game, It made me realise some very importants things.
I played this game in one sitting. It was absolutely captivating; I loved the story so much! I'm not even trans myself, but I felt Alex every step of the way. Her friends were great, too, and I'm so satisfied with how things turned out.
I'm a trans man up at 3am after having a horrific few days feeling emotionally numb after US trans folk got our medical rights stripped away. Playing this game was cathartic and healing in a way I can't fully articulate. I related really heavily to Alex, shuffling back and forth every weekend to a shitty controlling abusive dad's house and getting extremely involved in fandom, especially gay m/m fanfic and crossplay (cosplaying as a man when I was a teenage """"girl""""). I never got an older trans man to tell me I wasn't a freak for wanting to be a boy like in my favorite fanfics. I never got the chance to stand up to my dad and have any of my words actually get through to him. Getting the chance to do both, even from the perspective of someone else, was so immensely healing.
---END GAME SPOILERS---
Having Alex's profile pic in front of her face in the ending scene is a truly truly beautiful way to depict a trans person that's freshly cracked their egg and I think I'm going to remember it for a long long time. Thank you for this game.
I was wrong to not do it, and this game is magnificent.
I'm in the same situation than Alex, I've friend that sometimes support me, I've got IRL friend and for the most part they're dicks.
But I have one thing that Alex doesn't have is : a friend very close to me and who wants to do the same thing.
Well that was personal /(>~<)\ BUT this game helped me a lot. I've cried several times. Thanks. Magnificent work, magnificent game, magnificent story and like Samuel would say : "10/10 Would recommend".
Yea I know, I'm so tempted to make a 'Pretty Guardian: Love Force' discord or something... Oooo or even jus run a RP based off it, I bet Girl by Moonlight would be fun... IZUMI + HOTARU 4ever!
All the gender feels! I am a Admin for a LBGTQ friendly RPG server on discord and I am gearing up to do some games and explore the g e n d e r f e e l s
But yes, this game is so amazing and immersive, and got me so invested... like I spent 2 hours writing further for Alex's fanfic before I realized what I was doing and felt silly. And Guardian Waffle.. the Hero we Deserve, even if we don't need her syrupy justice
This was... amazing. I bought the game earlier tonight with the Racial Justice bundle and the moment I saw it among the list I just had to play it.
I was a very confused teenager in the mid to late 90s, and basically lived on AIM Instant Messenger and mIRC. I was a huge Sailor Moon fan, and Trans. There was so many, MANY things I shared in common with Alex that it was spooky.. amazing, but spooky and felt so damned real.
This was a wonderful story and treated the subject matter with weight and care that I really appreciated! All of the little late 90s touches were wonderful. I actually found myself spending over a hour just adding to Alex's fanfic at Jenni's behest (She did suggest writing at least to 1500 words). I've never quite had that much immersion and investment in a game before. Thank you.
This is such a wonderful game!!! It’s so thoughtfully designed and well-written. The dialogue feels incredibly real and every element of the UI made me so nostalgic for when I was little and the Internet was my primary source of comfort. The use of IMs as a narrative device is so clever: there’s so much anxiety in sending off a message and being forced to wait for a reply and it really puts he player in Alex‘s shoes. I’m so glad I tried this.
I just finished playing this game for the past two hours and it's honestly one of the best games i've played in years. i thought the storylines and characters were all written so well and done beautifully. i totally relate to alex to questioning their identity and not knowing that it was a thing. i got to the part where it was day 4? where you talk to the dad then he takes away your internet privileges but i can't seem to get past that part. i really enjoyed the game but i wish i could figure out how to get past this part and finish the game.
I don't want to spoil you, but I've struggled too so: here's an help ! First open the terminal and type : ls /Alex/Applications
And then you try to open the M.Net_Chat.play using the techniques that Laguna teached you (./Alex/Applications/[App_Chat.play])
Then she will explain to you how to go further.
If yo don't figure out the password, keep exploring using the same techniques, but if you still don't figure it out : ALEX is the first password and then you'll see \(^-^)/
I don't know what to say besides that I loved this game. I don't know of any other game which would encourage me to write 500 words of fanfic about a fictional show I know nothing about. But I did it; I don't know if it had any gameplay consequence, but it had an emotional one.
This game was so beautiful. It was really like reliving my own childhood. I had the same types of internet friends that i also shared my creations with, I had the same speech(writing) patterns as Alex and some other charas...There's too many things too count. It all felt so familiar...so very familiar. It almost makes me cry. And there was always one option in every dialogue option selection that was exactly like what i would say, do, and behave like back then.... that alex that i created through my choices was exactly me, and..it. it was something so special. it felt like living the times that i loved so dearly, that were so very special, and that are long gone, again. thank you.
Yo, this 'os' is super bugged - try opening two chat windows
I also closed the game & reopened it, & lost all my progress - is there a 'save game' button? I couldn't find one!
arrrrgh, i think there's another bug? I was just talking to jenni, & then a message from 'John' popped up, but when I clicked on his name there were no messages, it just said they're all archived?
When I try to close & re-open the message viewer, it opens two windows! one of which is my 'current' chats, the other is all the chats 'rewound' to the start?
Super frustrating b/c i loved the game so far, really nice atmosphere, really like this 'kind' of game, where you get thrust into someone else's life and get to figure out who they are & what their relationships are by browsing their messages & forum posts.
i first found this as a part of the amazing BLM bundle, and ofc brought it, because it meant i was supporting an amazing cause and also getting lots of amazing indie games from it. i found this one while i was surfing the games i had gotten, and it REALLY piqued my interest. i finished it a couple hours ago, and it so amazing made. there are so many paths to select, great life lessons of accepting yourself for who you are and i loved forming friendships with the many people in the game;
please buy it.
it is 1000% worth your money, and an AMAZING project. <3
brilliant amazing game. nothing for me to say that hasn't been said before it is awesome
one thing that puzzles me tho are the "secret" .sit archives in the game's directory, trying to use stuffit expander tells me that they're password protected. maybe i missed something in game? brain cells go brrrrr
I saw this recommended.. I dunno, I think on Twitter? By a friend, at any rate. When I saw it in The Bundle (you know the one), I knew it would be the first game I installed and played.
This game knows right where to punch. Not just in 'the feels,' but in the past. Right in the suppurating heart of the childhood that never felt *quite* right. Alex's experiences aren't an exact mirror of my own, but there was an immediate and recognisable authenticity to them. It got me right in my gay heart... and I'm only just coming to terms with the fact I have one of those to begin with.
If you're trans or non-binary, or even just had Gender Feelings at one point on your life.. or even if you haven't, but you want a glimpse into it, you should play this game.
I'm gonna go cry now, because Fiction Dad keeps calling me the wrong name :(
No joke, this is one of the best games I've ever played, I love every single aspect of it (except the terminal XP) I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is considering it,I'd also highly recommend that you go in completely blind for the greatest experience. I really hope there can be some kind of sequel in the future.
I Loved the game! This is one of the only games thats had me in tears! I almost never play a game straight through but I did with this one. I loved it I related so much to so many different aspects of it. Even being ftm i could fully relate to how she was feeling.
Saw this recommended on the bundle, and have loved it so far! Encountered a bug that's stopping me from progressing, though.
MINOR SPOILERS:
I get to the part where Jenni(?) says "It's not like anyone's going to stop you, right?" and get a (1) notification from John, but when I open that log, it's empty. D: Excited to finish it though, hopefully I can get it to work!
I loved this so much! It really did remind me of early internet days and exploring yourself as a teen. I'm NB and I remember feeling that same sort of "wait, you can do that?" that Alex experiences. Her interactions with her father were also eerily familiar, and just. Amazing work. <3
just want to chime in and say that this game really resonated with me and helped make me feel unafraid about being myself, i will always hold this game to the highest regard, it's a must-play, and honestly it's one of my favourite works of trans art in general. victoria deserves all the roses she can get. <3
thank you so much for this game <3 i wish i could more eloquently put into words how well this captures the feelings of being young and trans and trying to figure yourself out. this game is one of those things that is going to stick with me for a very long time.
I also wanted to say, that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought and even though I'm too young to know the Internet from 20 years ago, I still enjoyed every aspect of the Game. A bit annoying was figuring out the passwords. But yeah, thanks for making this AMAZING game, it really touched my heart.
okok so i finished the game after puzzling my way through the terminal commands (i'm... less computer literate than i thought i was, lmao) and i'm here to share some thoughts!
so first and foremost: i am SO impressed with this game. alex is such a real, heartwarming character, and as a trans man myself i relate to her experiences of discovering herself. seeing creative projects that talk about the trans experience fills my heart, and this game nearly made me cry.
something laguna said--"people who aren't like us straight-up just don't think about that shit"--is in sentiment identical to the tumblr post that made me realize i was trans (something like "cis people don't wonder if they're trans) so seeing that in-game felt really true & real.
and [SPOILERS] my most favorite part of SLH was the "is here for you" messages on the last day. that was really what nearly brought me to tears. it just filled me with so much happiness.
thank you for making this game! it means so much to me. thank you.
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holy moly
i did not expect this to hit as hard as it did.
thank you, victoria, for making this.
we'll all figure it out in the end.
:) <3
This game was the first game in a while to make me cry. The characters were so real, and this game really hit me hard. I will probably never forget the experience I had when playing this.
had an absolute time of it with this game. not a trans woman but i am a trans man and. Oof. this hit me. HARD. gonna think about this for weeks
Thank you. Not just for this game, but for keeping on. Alex'll figure it out.. I have hope I will too. Her dad reminds me of my Grandma. It's been a rough time.. but I'm an adult now. And I get to make the choice all my own.
I just finished this game and let me say, it was one of the most emotional games ive played. Talking to john was terrifying and the way it glitched. This game is perfect!
I loved this game. I didn't realize I was trans until grad school, so I maybe saw more of myself in Laguna than Alex, but there was something so wonderfully nostalgic about how early Internet communities are shown here.
I finished this game just a couple of hours ago, and before playing, I was still doubting if I realy wanted to be trans, I it was the right thing to do ect, I'm not in the case of Alex(like family ect), but I reconized myself a lot in every advice given by Laguna, I almost cried several times, and now I'm sure of what I want to do.
I have a very close friend, like a sister to me that is in the same situation (At the time I post this , her comment is very close to this one)
I absolutly recommend this game, It made me realise some very importants things.
(sry for the english i'm not a native speaker)
If you or your friend are looking for trans resources, I'd really recommend you check out this list. Best of luck, stay strong!
I'm gonna check out, thank you very much !
I gonna cry my sister ;-;
I love you sooooooooooooooooooo much
I played this game in one sitting. It was absolutely captivating; I loved the story so much! I'm not even trans myself, but I felt Alex every step of the way. Her friends were great, too, and I'm so satisfied with how things turned out.
I'm a trans man up at 3am after having a horrific few days feeling emotionally numb after US trans folk got our medical rights stripped away. Playing this game was cathartic and healing in a way I can't fully articulate. I related really heavily to Alex, shuffling back and forth every weekend to a shitty controlling abusive dad's house and getting extremely involved in fandom, especially gay m/m fanfic and crossplay (cosplaying as a man when I was a teenage """"girl""""). I never got an older trans man to tell me I wasn't a freak for wanting to be a boy like in my favorite fanfics. I never got the chance to stand up to my dad and have any of my words actually get through to him. Getting the chance to do both, even from the perspective of someone else, was so immensely healing.
---END GAME SPOILERS---
Having Alex's profile pic in front of her face in the ending scene is a truly truly beautiful way to depict a trans person that's freshly cracked their egg and I think I'm going to remember it for a long long time. Thank you for this game.
I don't usually play Visual Novels.
I don't usually play solo games.
I was wrong to not do it, and this game is magnificent.
I'm in the same situation than Alex, I've friend that sometimes support me, I've got IRL friend and for the most part they're dicks.
But I have one thing that Alex doesn't have is : a friend very close to me and who wants to do the same thing.
Well that was personal /(>~<)\ BUT this game helped me a lot. I've cried several times. Thanks. Magnificent work, magnificent game, magnificent story and like Samuel would say : "10/10 Would recommend".
So, does anyone else have the burning question....
Were the rumors true? In the PGLF Movie did Minori end up
becoming a Guardian beside all their friends?
I know its a silly thing to fixate on, but thats just how invested I got into this game, that that question is bugging the heck out of me!
I WANNA KNOW TOO !!!
MINORI IS OUR GOD, please if someone has the answer tell us.
Haha posting here feel like I am still in the game! ^-^
Yea I know, I'm so tempted to make a 'Pretty Guardian: Love Force' discord or something... Oooo or even jus run a RP based off it, I bet Girl by Moonlight would be fun... IZUMI + HOTARU 4ever!
Oh my gosh, please!! I honestly just want a Discord of this game to discuss the g e n d e r f e e l s
y e s
All the gender feels! I am a Admin for a LBGTQ friendly RPG server on discord and I am gearing up to do some games and explore the g e n d e r f e e l s
But yes, this game is so amazing and immersive, and got me so invested... like I spent 2 hours writing further for Alex's fanfic before I realized what I was doing and felt silly. And Guardian Waffle.. the Hero we Deserve, even if we don't need her syrupy justice
also, was guardian waffle finally made cannon??
G U A R D I A N W A F F L E
Syrupy Justice for all!!
it's 4 am as im writing this and i just finished the game. as a teenage trans girl who only came out just last year, thank you.
This was... amazing. I bought the game earlier tonight with the Racial Justice bundle and the moment I saw it among the list I just had to play it.
I was a very confused teenager in the mid to late 90s, and basically lived on AIM Instant Messenger and mIRC. I was a huge Sailor Moon fan, and Trans. There was so many, MANY things I shared in common with Alex that it was spooky.. amazing, but spooky and felt so damned real.
This was a wonderful story and treated the subject matter with weight and care that I really appreciated! All of the little late 90s touches were wonderful. I actually found myself spending over a hour just adding to Alex's fanfic at Jenni's behest (She did suggest writing at least to 1500 words). I've never quite had that much immersion and investment in a game before. Thank you.
This is such a wonderful game!!! It’s so thoughtfully designed and well-written. The dialogue feels incredibly real and every element of the UI made me so nostalgic for when I was little and the Internet was my primary source of comfort. The use of IMs as a narrative device is so clever: there’s so much anxiety in sending off a message and being forced to wait for a reply and it really puts he player in Alex‘s shoes. I’m so glad I tried this.
I just finished playing this game for the past two hours and it's honestly one of the best games i've played in years. i thought the storylines and characters were all written so well and done beautifully. i totally relate to alex to questioning their identity and not knowing that it was a thing. i got to the part where it was day 4? where you talk to the dad then he takes away your internet privileges but i can't seem to get past that part. i really enjoyed the game but i wish i could figure out how to get past this part and finish the game.
I don't want to spoil you, but I've struggled too so: here's an help !
First open the terminal and type : ls /Alex/Applications
And then you try to open the M.Net_Chat.play using the techniques that Laguna teached you (./Alex/Applications/[App_Chat.play])
Then she will explain to you how to go further.
If yo don't figure out the password, keep exploring using the same techniques, but if you still don't figure it out : ALEX is the first password and then you'll see \(^-^)/
I don't know what to say besides that I loved this game. I don't know of any other game which would encourage me to write 500 words of fanfic about a fictional show I know nothing about. But I did it; I don't know if it had any gameplay consequence, but it had an emotional one.
This game was so beautiful. It was really like reliving my own childhood. I had the same types of internet friends that i also shared my creations with, I had the same speech(writing) patterns as Alex and some other charas...There's too many things too count. It all felt so familiar...so very familiar. It almost makes me cry. And there was always one option in every dialogue option selection that was exactly like what i would say, do, and behave like back then.... that alex that i created through my choices was exactly me, and..it. it was something so special. it felt like living the times that i loved so dearly, that were so very special, and that are long gone, again. thank you.
Yo, this 'os' is super bugged - try opening two chat windows
I also closed the game & reopened it, & lost all my progress - is there a 'save game' button? I couldn't find one!
arrrrgh, i think there's another bug? I was just talking to jenni, & then a message from 'John' popped up, but when I clicked on his name there were no messages, it just said they're all archived?
When I try to close & re-open the message viewer, it opens two windows! one of which is my 'current' chats, the other is all the chats 'rewound' to the start?
Super frustrating b/c i loved the game so far, really nice atmosphere, really like this 'kind' of game, where you get thrust into someone else's life and get to figure out who they are & what their relationships are by browsing their messages & forum posts.
oh my god. where do i start?
i first found this as a part of the amazing BLM bundle, and ofc brought it, because it meant i was supporting an amazing cause and also getting lots of amazing indie games from it. i found this one while i was surfing the games i had gotten, and it REALLY piqued my interest. i finished it a couple hours ago, and it so amazing made. there are so many paths to select, great life lessons of accepting yourself for who you are and i loved forming friendships with the many people in the game;
please buy it.
it is 1000% worth your money, and an AMAZING project. <3
-natpat ^u^
brilliant amazing game. nothing for me to say that hasn't been said before it is awesome
one thing that puzzles me tho are the "secret" .sit archives in the game's directory, trying to use stuffit expander tells me that they're password protected. maybe i missed something in game? brain cells go brrrrr
I saw this recommended.. I dunno, I think on Twitter? By a friend, at any rate. When I saw it in The Bundle (you know the one), I knew it would be the first game I installed and played.
This game knows right where to punch. Not just in 'the feels,' but in the past. Right in the suppurating heart of the childhood that never felt *quite* right. Alex's experiences aren't an exact mirror of my own, but there was an immediate and recognisable authenticity to them. It got me right in my gay heart... and I'm only just coming to terms with the fact I have one of those to begin with.
If you're trans or non-binary, or even just had Gender Feelings at one point on your life.. or even if you haven't, but you want a glimpse into it, you should play this game.
I'm gonna go cry now, because Fiction Dad keeps calling me the wrong name :(
an OUTSTANDING story and INCREDIBLE experience!!!!!!! what a great way to spend a good few hours!! :D
Wonderful game. Thank you so much.
I stayed up till 12:31 and played this in one sitting.I would put this with games like Oneshot and Celeste in how highly I would recommend them.
No joke, this is one of the best games I've ever played, I love every single aspect of it (except the terminal XP) I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is considering it,I'd also highly recommend that you go in completely blind for the greatest experience. I really hope there can be some kind of sequel in the future.
I Loved the game! This is one of the only games thats had me in tears! I almost never play a game straight through but I did with this one. I loved it I related so much to so many different aspects of it. Even being ftm i could fully relate to how she was feeling.
This game is beautiful and amazing, i loved this experience.
Saw this recommended on the bundle, and have loved it so far! Encountered a bug that's stopping me from progressing, though.
MINOR SPOILERS:
I get to the part where Jenni(?) says "It's not like anyone's going to stop you, right?" and get a (1) notification from John, but when I open that log, it's empty. D: Excited to finish it though, hopefully I can get it to work!
A friend of mine recently got me this game in a bundle, I haven't finished it but... thank you. So much. This game is amazing.
from, a young trans girl
those scenes with the dad really just struck some fear deep within me that I don't think I've ever felt before it was crazy
anyway get this game especially if you're trans like me it's good
“LS”, not “IS” :P
I loved this so much! It really did remind me of early internet days and exploring yourself as a teen. I'm NB and I remember feeling that same sort of "wait, you can do that?" that Alex experiences. Her interactions with her father were also eerily familiar, and just. Amazing work. <3
Hey I found a bug, um when you click the chat option too many times it opens two chats and you cant finish the day until you finish both chats.
Otherwise the game is amazing I love it so much
just want to chime in and say that this game really resonated with me and helped make me feel unafraid about being myself, i will always hold this game to the highest regard, it's a must-play, and honestly it's one of my favourite works of trans art in general. victoria deserves all the roses she can get. <3
thank you so much for this game <3 i wish i could more eloquently put into words how well this captures the feelings of being young and trans and trying to figure yourself out. this game is one of those things that is going to stick with me for a very long time.
Thank you so much for this game! It really resonated with me!
I also wanted to say, that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought and even though I'm too young to know the Internet from 20 years ago, I still enjoyed every aspect of the Game. A bit annoying was figuring out the passwords. But yeah, thanks for making this AMAZING game, it really touched my heart.
okok so i finished the game after puzzling my way through the terminal commands (i'm... less computer literate than i thought i was, lmao) and i'm here to share some thoughts!
so first and foremost: i am SO impressed with this game. alex is such a real, heartwarming character, and as a trans man myself i relate to her experiences of discovering herself. seeing creative projects that talk about the trans experience fills my heart, and this game nearly made me cry.
something laguna said--"people who aren't like us straight-up just don't think about that shit"--is in sentiment identical to the tumblr post that made me realize i was trans (something like "cis people don't wonder if they're trans) so seeing that in-game felt really true & real.
and [SPOILERS] my most favorite part of SLH was the "is here for you" messages on the last day. that was really what nearly brought me to tears. it just filled me with so much happiness.
thank you for making this game! it means so much to me. thank you.