its good

is good

Played this game on the itch.io version as well. I strongly feel this game came out before it's time. Not for everyone but It touched me deeply and it is unfortunate that the ones that may need to hear the messages of the game the most may be the least likely to ever pick it up.

Great time

fun little acid trip for depressed people 👍

an expressive work of art. came across this randomly and i found its visual style really interesting pairing abrasive, glitchy, eye-sore aesthetics with cute cartoony characters. one of a kind experience that is honestly like no other game i've played.
(✅:3 ✅made me question everything ✅uncomforting ✅sometimes funny, sometimes ruins your life)
8/10

This game is personal and well done. I know the dev personally so going through this game was emotional, and exciting. It was like I was peering into someone’s diary, a candid look into the soul to a degree. There are a lot of intense topics in this game, so a trigger warning is needed. This game also discusses mental health through the lens of a person who’s been through hell and back. If you want a really unique story and game give this one a go!

I'm scared and confused

This is art, because it provoked strong emotions in me, and the dev is an artist, because they made this thing which I hate.

Complete lack of introspection or reflection. Comes across as the sort of person who uses therapy-speak as a cover to be callous and evil. Multiple times in this interactive experience are cries for help, cries for other people to stop their own lives to help this person, who has admittedly gone through serious trauma. It's a subtle and insidious form of narcissism, to completely miss the fact that literally everyone else in the world is going through similar things as you, if not worse. When you whine about how people telling you to move on, to not overshare, to hold it in, it's because they're doing those things as well. They're angry at YOU for breaking the code, for being so oblivious as to think that you're the only one going through ♥♥♥♥.

The anti-capitalist woe-is-me screed falls flat when the game's riddled with typos and general errors. No industry is ever 100% fair, but art, and games in particular, are the fairest there is currently. You fail in this industry if you make a ♥♥♥♥ game, or make a game that's unoriginal, and the raw truth of it is that this genre of trauma-art-psychological interactive visual novel media is the easiest of all game genres to make. You are plain delusional if you think that you're doing the same level of hard work as some other dev that was successful.

The world does NOT owe you anything, actually. To be all bleeding-heart about how we need more compassion and kindness and honesty and then invoke the concept of "emotional labor" and cry for everyone else to help you is the height of hypocrisy. If you're not willing to help other people, and if you're not already helping them, why do you expect them to help you? Sorry, but you must participate in your own survival.

But I got my money's worth in that it made me do some reflection.

I'm definitely going to be returning to this game just to read the poems and do the funny little interactive games. Unfortunately, I took a buncha screenshots which steam did not register properly- so I just advise that anyone who play this game use a different screen capture program than the one steam offers.

Anyways, my review is in the form of a poem because why not:

"Your words have pierced my heart
like the winds of a deathly winter.

With wounds now exposed,
I breathe differently now.

The cold air fills my lungs,
giving me the clarity to see
pieces I've left behind,
pieces of what's left of me.

To be honest, I'm usually pessimistic,
hopeless,
and lost.

But now I see I'm not alone, and
you alone have given me a cause.
I have no choice but to
glue myself back up together

So,
I too, will join this fight.
As a stubborn one
who refuses to die.

Thank you for making such an amazing game,
and for filling the void with a little light.

You deserve better too. You've made it, right?"