(sorry, my review is gonna be unbelievably long)
Oh my god, this was just adorable. The art style is just *chef kiss* GORGEOUS! It was a really short and pleasant experience.
But most importantly this game was really relatable and as far as I saw a lot of people agrees with me. Idk If I'm gonna be able to phrase this correctly but it made me think how everyone deals with these kind of problems (depression, burned out, anxiety or even just life) and how we're trying to move on and be a better version of ourselves , with or without the support of other people.
(I'm so sorry I wanted to share my life and opinions, If you're not interested just skip till the very last paragraph)
I had a really rough time before this summer, I just felt so lost and days started to blend in and everything turned into a not so healthy loop. At some point I completely shut myself in my house and had not motivation to go outside or try to get better. I just needed a friend or just someone to support me a little but I was too ashamed to ask for help or when I finally found the courage to open up, everyone would just tell me that they didn't know how to make me feel better or to get better without nobody's help. (because I had no close friends to rely to) And when summer finally came, I started working on myself, try to build some confidence and self-love. I can't say that I completely achieved my goal (you don't get better in one night) but I got a different prospective of my life and I wished someone would have told me this before:
That everything is going to be alright and that everything IS gonna get better, it always does BUT in other to achieve that you need to willingly be able to change, to improve, to be as open minded as possible and to accept the fact that the world doesn't move around you and that you need to accept (positive) criticism and admit that you were wrong. That it's normal to have intrusive thoughts or to feel down and that it's alright to take a break from everything once in awhile but you also need to make choices that will improve your life and people around you. And everyone always says that "you need to love yourself", I know it's difficult to accept and love ourselves with all our flaws but we're gonna spend the rest of our life with ourselves, in this body, so screw the beauty standard, screw people's judgements of us, we only need to focus on us, be ourselves and embrace every single piece of us. We're all beautiful, inside and out and we need to feel comfortable being who we are, dress as we please despite our body shape or gender. Life is so short and we don't know what's gonna happen after, we need to fully live our days. We don't need to do anything big, we can just appreciate the little things, like that we were able to walk our dogs out, we were able to have a good meal, we were able to do something productive or focused on our hobbies, we were able to wear that shirt we were always so insecure and afraid to wear. And slowly we're gonna achieve true happiness and everything will fall in place. Of course life isn't just flowers and rainbows but in order to have a rainbow we need a little bit of rain, right? And we also really need to realise that TONS OF PEOPLE are dealing with OUR SAME PROBLEMS. We're not alone and no matter our closest ones aren't supportive there's always gonna be someone out there happy to give us support. And most importantly, we need to just go outside without feeling like the entire worlds is watching our every single move. Everybody is pretty minding their own business so they're not care If you're hair are messy, you got bags under your eyes or you got a pimple on your forehead. Sure there might be someone who's gonna point it out but BESTIE who cares! Just ignore it and MOVE ON. Even If you're gonna randomly gonna sit on the ground, greet someone you don't know or literally start dancing in the streets, what's the worst that can happen? Someone is gonna look at you and judge you, some will literally not even acknowledged you, that's not the end of the world. Sure you might overthink about it when you get home but who saw you they will forget it after five minutes or talk about you to their dinner table but that's it. So please PLEASE don't waste your time and be your beautiful self. We all deserve love but try loving yourself first. Make every day worthy and have no regrets.
I'm so sorry for this really long review but this game just made me realised how much I grew in just a few months and how our minds can control us to an extend that we lose ourselves so much, that we can't find happiness anywhere, we just feel so empty and a burned for everyone and ourselves too. Please everyone stay strong and thank you creator for have created such an amazing and cozy game.
(Also I want to apologise for any grammar mistakes, my English isn't that great)