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Spoilers ahead.
I might sling adjectives a lot cus I'm bad at writing good but it's all genuine.
Genuinely such a good game, the characters are all unique and tragic and great and horrible and so much more .. The music and art are sooooooo good, music choice psychedelic at points and anxiety inducing the next but also other times being melancholic and sounding like complete despair. I was drawn to this game because of the self-harm prevalence (found through vndb self-harm trait, I find this topic cathartic and comforting) and partly the art which was immediately eye-catching, the game looks like how it feels and I love each of the characters portraits, they capture each of the characters personalities kinda like how Haley's portrait border is spiky and jagged making it feel warding, represents her tendency to push away others through being an asshole. Each of the character's expressions on their portraits definitely gets across a basic idea of their personality, all so fitting, the full CG's are awesome too.
I saw so much of myself shattered between all of the characters. I saw myself in their flaws, their ways of comfort, their fucked up desires, their histories, their relationships, their hurt .. probably other things I have too much brain fog to think of.
This game resonated with me so much, the despair and misery are so real. I'm luckily not in the kind of situation these characters are in but my mental state has been severely fucked for the past several years, and I feel if I didn't have somewhere to live or my mother who tries to support me and help me I could very easily end up being one of these girls and/or its, independence seems very scary as I fear the people I would attract and be drawn to.
Near the end of the game I was dreading what was going to happen to Haley's body .. I was thinking no no no please do not do what I think you're going to do, and I'm so glad they didn't do that. Roaches and Harsh Noise were scary and made me feel unsafe hehe, not the kind of people you would wanna be friends with, nor Xelia. Vanessa and Argo's relationship felt so real to me, the mutual cutting made me fear one of them would go too deep if it became a regular occurrence and I was anticipating something like that happening, it felt so completely real, my freak was exposed to myself and laid bare and raw for me to come to terms with and understand my fucked mind. Their insecurity and fear of abandonment were very relatable to me with regards to my ex partner, sort of both of us were like this, being constantly hyper-aware of the other person's speech and looking into everything they say for signs of hate or distrust, the jealousy of knowing they are speaking to other people or hanging out with them and trying to fight that feeling or whatever the fuck.
Audrey was so nice in this, the one semi-responsible one that tried to keep everyone including herself grounded. The scene where she's bouncing between texting each one of them and fucking it up was amazing, my anxiety rose and rose and I got increasingly worried about Haley.
You got no idea how inspiring this game is like, I have not had motivation for anything for the past few months and very little or none for years, but reading something like this really makes me want to create and express. I wish I could come through and make a game as raw as this, to be able to express every fucked up thought I've had and the various people I've come across is something I wish so much to be able to do. I have actually begun writing down my weird and messed up thoughts after playing this, they give me inspiration to create, ideas to go off of.
This game will stick with me for a long time and thank you for making it, when feeling anything is so hard a game that can make me feel so much like this becomes extremely special. ^w^