This game really stuck with me. Beneath the surreal setup, I saw something deeply human — a metaphor about love, attachment, and the pain of trying to hold on too tightly to something that was never meant to last forever.
To me, the mushroom girl represents joy, wonder, and emotional openness. But as the game goes on, she begins to suffer — not from cruelty, but from being emotionally trapped in someone else’s need to feel happy. Even when the protagonist means well, his refusal to let her go becomes a quiet form of possessiveness. He clings to her because she once made him feel whole, and he can’t bear to lose that feeling.
That’s why the “cooking and eating” ending hit so hard. I interpreted it as a symbolic act of acceptance — letting go of the fantasy, grieving, and finally allowing her memory to become something internal, not something to chase. In the end, he finds peace not by keeping her, but by releasing her.
Was I far off with that interpretation?
Either way, thank you for making something so strange, sad, and beautiful.