i am writing this like an hour after i finished this game. i really liked this game thank you for making it would be the short way of saying what i want to say but i don't think that really captures all the emotions i feel.
i'm gonna get slightly personal here but i still wanted to express what i feel. sorry in advance.
i don't really like putting on labels for my identity!! though if gun put to my head i would say that i'm aromantic,, since the idea tends to capture the main idea of what i feel like. its not perfect but its smth that people can understand. i haven't really thought all that deeply abt it. but i do like interacting with media with ace ppl in it so i decided to try out this game. most of the time its comforting? but in a sort of "ahah, i get what you mean" way. but this game.. well i wouldn't say that it completely understands me. i would say the opposite! me and friendprogram are completely on different sides of the spectrum. i think back to the whole movies things. while friendprogram would hate DCOMS, i eat that crap up like a starving Victorian child. while love is something that they can't relate to at all. despite how foreign it is to me, its the only way i can describe the way i feel abt ppl! isn't that strange!! i think that idea is something that really touchs me deeply.
a lot of media doesn't really try to completely understand the spectrum of aromanticism. its very, cookie-cutter in my opinion. which is fine!! if someone can relate to it then good but it never feels like it completely understands what im feeling. its very superficial relating. and as i said above while this game doesn't get me, it feels so comforting to see media which explores those feelings at all. it's not just "i'm aromantic" it's "i am a person who is aromantic. and what does that mean for me as a person and my identity". this game has made me look at myself,, and those feelings (or lack of them) which i feel the world around me and make me actually think. "who am i? am i happy with who am i? and what does it mean to feel connected in a world which probably will never fully understand what im going through". ig that's why i like it so much?? "i will never fully understand what friendprogram is going through which makes me feel like its okay that no one might understand what im going through". if that makes any lick of sense. whats another way i can put this... yknow when ppl play games that they really relate to and say that they can really see themselves in it? this game is like a broken mirror. while the reflection is cracked and absolutely not perfect, im so glad i can see myself at all.
this is a piece of media that i dont think i will ever completely get. and thats amazing. its a story which proves that creativity deserves to exist bc this is a story that only someone like you can tell. its so personal, so expressive so so you!! and i completely adore everything about it. it may not be perfect, it may not be 100% understandable, but i can say with confidence that this game has made me feel something that i will never feel in any other piece of media ever again. i'm happy i got to see these complex emotions and gain more complex emotions in turn. and that's just stellar, isn't it?
this game made me want to share my own story abt my feelings on my aro identity and what it feels like to be aro for me. and i think that's one of the best things a creation can do. make someone want to create. you are a once in a lifetime creator. someone who im eagerly awaiting to see anything else they decide to create. this game means a lot to me. and it will mean a lot to me in the far off future. i will keep it in my heart and i will make sure that i will never forget what it has told me today. i really liked this game, and sincerely, thank you for making it.
woah. that was a yap fest. um.
tldr; FUN is the best character in this game. solo no dif. i need it merch of it stat. pillows, plushies, wallpapers, tacky singing statues that ppl by for the cars that sway and move around. everything!! thank you so much.