In My Eyes: The Monster.

Short game about a perspective of a monster that is facing obssesive thoughts about Its existence. · By RedSythe

Review (Spoilers Here)

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I will share my experience, thoughts and interpretation of the vn here, I hope that this helps you improve!

EXPERIENCE

Can’t save. T_T
I can’t believe that this was made with the Renpy Engine, are you a genius?! is so impressive. XD
I love the “weirdcore” aesthetic in this game, you definitely should add “Retro”, “Weird” and “Lo-fi” in the tags! Believe me when I say that I found this game just by chance. The thumbnail can be improved to attract more weirdos too. x3
In my first route I got the bad ending. Neutral next, and finally the “Good” ending.
I love how denying the monster nature is a bad ending, you forced me to see that I was just defending myself, and not playing by the rules of the vn, after all, I play as the monster!
Implied suicide uh?. Should be added as a trigger in the description, just in case.

INTERPRETATION

For me is clear that the monster is anything but human (see the basement), I don’t believe that this is a story about a psychopath cannibal. So, I just have one question: why the monster says that he is a human?, why not being human is degrading for a monster? was he really that confused? he really tried that hard?
About everything else, the vn is pretty straightforward, you can’t miss the meaning here. Still, the subject is pretty complex and it makes you think.
For the prior, I think that this vn is great, great work!

UNIMPORTANT REFLECTIONS BELOW, READING IS OPTIONAL

The monster in this vn is intelligent, so are the humans. Humans never had much problems eating animals because we are convinced that they aren’t conscious, we go even beyond and deny that they have a soul! But what if something conscious has to eat something conscious? even worse, what if they understand each other?. The mental stress for these creatures would be so high, that I don’t expect them to survive as a species for long. Is unsustainable, is just not optimal.