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Oh? Well I am pretty bad at using Reddit it seems. xD 
Thanks, I will try to find out how I can find these posts.

I see, why specifically here?

I looked into the reddit link but all Echo posts are at least one year old... guess I am too late again (Happens all the time because I usually discover good stuff pretty late).  Or I need to create a new thread...but from experience this might not be very effective. 

Thank you so much!

Are you active there, too?

Can someone maybe tell me if there is a good forum in which people are talking about Echo? I would really like to share some thoughts and see what others think.

Thank you.

This is actually very fascinating for me because I felt absolutely the opposite. 

But first:
Pleas don't get me wrong here. I didn't write the following text to look down on you. Explaining this via text always sounds arrogant but you should know that I don't know you so I really try to summarize the reason why you MAYBE didn't see it as a good VN. 

From my view Echo works if you have reflected very much on your own psychological problems, your emotional and mental construct and if you have gone through a lot of pain yourself to see the depth behind this story. 

Thats why I assume it doesn't work if you haven't evolved a certain level of unconditional empathy to build this very important connection to those characters AND if you haven't understood the complexity of what it means to be human.  If you don't see those levels, of course it feels boring and like it doesn't tell you anything. The story itself is packed as a pretty simple surreal nightmare but written and told in a very real and authentic way of how trauma breaks the mind. It is the huge amount of subtle details, not the haunted town story plot.

The deeper you look the more of those interconnecting details you can find and it really surprised me when I started to realize that the writers really know how trauma works.

I know not everyone can see this but the question is "Is it worth to go through this in your life to be able see it." No of course not. You can be quite happy that you can't relate to it.  

That's why it is so brilliantly written for people who are receptive for this kind of story.

I played it two months ago and it threw me into a emotional life changing deprssion. I am already out of it again but it left deep marks. 

It truly is a masterful work and even if it hurt it still rocketed to place 1 as my most favorite VN from the furry community. And maybe also place 1 as psychological horror overall. 

I have very beefy and well maintained machines (PC and Laptop) and never experienced this with voices of the void, even on the highest settings. The only time I crashed the game was by changing settings too fast before everything could be loaded and spamming buttons so the engine told me to fuck off xD.

An Intel i3  and a nvidia mx110 could reach their limits to run most games but Voices of the Void should somehow run at the lowest settings, maybe. I am not sure because these two components are unfortunately pretty old/slow, plus they have been slow, when they were new back then. 

But generally: If a computer suddenly turns off/restarts without any warning this means the CPU, the GPU or the power management of the Mainboard/PowerSupply shut down to protect any of these parts from getting damaged. This doesn't mean anything is broken or dying, it just means something runs too hot or too long over it's defined limits.

Update your drivers to the latest (Chipset, GPU ) and let AIDA64 or HWinfo (only sensors) monitor your temperatures while you run the game. If your CPU and GPU stay below 85°C they should be okay. Otherwise clean your fans and the passive coolers (fins). Get someone that can help you with opening your laptop safely to not damage anything.

From the age of the laptop I would also recommend replacing thermal paste and thermal pads.

If the temps are fine you need to do some advanced analytics because it could be a dying component.