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I discovered this game when I was in my second year of high school, and I honestly can’t explain how calming it felt to play it with Spotify in the background. Even when I got stressed over the tiniest things or lost because of something dumb, I was always happy to start again, because every time I felt more confident that I could beat it. I came up with strategies and even made my own little guide for weapons and enchantments each time I played, carefully saving supplies and healing potions and trying not to waste scrolls.

I always played it on my phone, but now I can finally play it on a computer. I thought the Steam version was the only one available in this format, so finding it here genuinely made me smile. I recommended it to most of my friends, and even though I’m pretty sure they never played it or didn’t even check it out on the Play Store, I know that one day it’ll get the recognition this awesome game really deserves.

(Sorry if there are any mistakes—Spanish is my first language, hehe.)

(Lots of text—sorry if anything doesn’t make sense!) I discovered this game on Pinterest while looking for wallpapers, and I absolutely don’t regret trying it.

I’m a native Spanish speaker, so my written English isn’t very good, although I can read it without problems. I love Asya’s personality and the way she believes that Garin and the other guys are joking with her, not specifically at her expense. Her way of seeing the world is something I really like—she understands what’s happening, yet she still tries to justify it.

One scene I really liked is after Marina slams the door in our faces. Asya desperately begs her (or something along those lines) not to change the way she treats her, saying that she enjoys her company and would change anything that bores her—like being funnier or letting Marina tease her—just so they would never stop seeing each other. I might have misunderstood some parts, since English isn’t my native language, but seeing Asya at school, knowing she was being bullied and that it would only get worse if she said anything—like when she refused to give Garin her homework and he revealed what had happened to her at the auto repair shop, something Asya had told him herself thinking it was just a joke—or that they would simply stop talking to her, Marina felt like a real opportunity to finally have a friend.

Even though they initially bonded mainly over Ira’s disappearance, and Asya herself felt like a replacement—especially because of what Garin said when he saw them together at the beginning of Chapter 2—Marina showed genuine interest. That’s probably why Asya begged so hard for Marina to forgive her, pleading for her to open the door. And even though Marina doesn’t consider herself a good person, she still opened the door and asked if Asya truly saw her that way.

Even if it all makes sense logically, I still felt somewhat identified with Asya. I remember begging not to be left alone, because I finally thought I had friends. That’s why I love her character so much. I wish I had thought of having an antenna to show my love to the whole world instead of shutting myself inside a bubble. I’m glad the ending involved the antenna and not something else.