Follow-up Note: I have returned to this game at least 3 times in the last year, though I lost count, it’s probably more. Each time I play it, or even listen to the end song (17 by Nightjars, which I bought on Bandcamp immediately after my first playthrough), I feel like I’m transported back to those feelings of love and hope and sadness and friendship. It’s wonderful. Gosh, maybe I’ll play it again today.
The advertising is accurate: my gender is wrecked.
In all seriousness though, (not that that wasn't) I adore this game. It brings adorableness to creatures of horrifying nightmares, sensitivity to creatures seeming unfeeling, and meaning to a seemingly empty world. I know I will be returning to this game because I have to. In the best and worst of times this game shows the possibility of unlikely friendship in an extremely short amount of time. It reminds me how large our impacts can be when they are ever so small. And it reminds me to keep searching for things I love, but sometimes that search is just me reaching out to others to come find me. We are all on our own journeys, but there's no reason we can't follow our paths together as they inevitably intertwine.
I love this game and it loves me.
