Why must you always do this to me...........
I am always rendered to tears at the end of your games????
I feel like I always read through the last through lines barely able to see the screen....
My gosh though. [SOME SPOILERS PROBABLY BECAUSE I WILL LIKELY RAMBLE] This was utterly gut-wrenching and mind-breaking in a million and one ways. Everything you did. Every single choice you made for every piece of formatting, every effect with the text, every use of darkening and blurring and pausing and... and just... EVERYTHING... it all worked together to create this overwhelming experience that rattled me to the core.
As someone who's never been in quite this kind of intense situation but who's still been in relationships where I've felt "scared" to act a certain way out of fear that the other person will blow up, even if the blowing up doesn't lead to violence but still leads to me being hurt emotionally, I could put myself immediately in Orly's shoes and the fear packed into her thoughts and words and interactions really hit hard with me. Then the build-up leading towards the end... my god... it was so brilliantly and beautifully and intensely done. Like. That moment after the choice. Honestly felt like my heart stopped for just a moment. Seeing Orly's thoughts warp and build and turn into strength that she'd never had before. The use of the text effects here especially was stunning and really served to make every single line etch its way deep into the grooves of your heart and mind so you could feel every syllable.
The music choice was excellent. The main track playing throughout the game is really reminiscent to me of Thomas Newman and his stuff from The Shawshank Redemption, which added a double layer of emotional kick to me as his music literally already makes me weep. Then the second song I got a mild jumpscare on because I recognized it as a song I had once downloaded in a list of "Possible Songs for the Future" LDKJFALKDSF It's such a good one. So emotional. And really set the tone for that final scene.
GOD.
I feel like I'm running out of things to actually talk about in a cohesive way because mostly right now I'm just a wibbling pile of emotions after this lakdjfalsdf Just an absolutely fantastic, emotional piece that brings with it a glimmer of hope at the end. A hope for a fresh start. Something better. An escape. One that maybe not all of us can find. But one that we're all hoping for no matter what kind of situation we feel completely stuck within in our life, where it feels like we have no way out. But we do. Sometimes we just need to find the strength hidden inside of us. That can only be brought out by a chimichurri steak.
Thank you for making this (and for all of your games, let's be real) alsdkjfalds. With every single one of them, I'm sent down an absolute torrent of emotions.
(Also I had no idea what chimichurri steak is before this??? LDKFJAD)