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oh sorry  :(

It's on Steam if that is any help  (free).  Wonderful game by the way.

Yeh, impossible not to want to do the best you possibly can to make Cove happy isn't it?  You would have to have a heart of stone not to :D  It is pretty amazing how they make a 2D cartoon drawing and a few lignes of dialog so real and so endearing.  It is creative genius.  :)

Bad english? it's perfect english.  If I could write Portuguese 1% as well as your english then I would be really happy.  And yes, it is an adorable game  :)

This, 100%

Hi gingerDee.  Really nice to hear from you.  Thanks for your message.  Thanks so much for the link, and the virtual hug, I appreciate it, and send one back  :)

I'm sure that a lot of people feel the way we do about this game.  ( as I've said elsewhere, game just does not seem an adequate word to describe it).

I, just a moment ago subscribed on the Patrion site to help fund the GB Patch developers.   Our Life means so much to me, I felt it was the very least that I should do.

You said "It's just the kind of media and representation I wish existed when I was Cove's age and confused."  I could not put it better myself.  Had I understood myself better, then I might have possibly been more understanding of others too.  I think that my biggest regrets are not understanding other people in the past.  When I was in sixth form, I remember a guy telling me out of the blue that he is gay (this was the 70s, he could have been abused and become an outcast for saying that, but he told me), and I didn't have a clue what to say.  I am filled with shame looking back on it, he put his trust in me, yet I had nothing for him, because I didn't understand.  I spoke to no one else about it, but I never talked to him about it ever again either. How awful is that.  

The one big thing that this game has changed in me is that I feel open about it all.  If anyone asks me anything about my feelings then I will now tell them the honest truth without embarassment.  Before, I was completely evasive, because I felt that I didn't really know what the truth was.  It is a liberating feeling.

So thanks again for your message, I really do appreciate it  :) 

First off, your comment is not long and boring.  It is thoughtful and open. I think you expressed very well how you felt.

I agree with you completely that it is more than a game, game seems totally inadequate to describe it.  Many of us grow up feeling bad about ourselves.  I didn't understand my sexuality growing up, I wasn't certain if I was gay, but I didn't feel straight either.  

What you say about 2D Cove is not at all pathetic.  But it amazed me too how a cartoonish image could come to represent someone so completely adorable and loving.  I know what you mean about how it takes you to another place, away from your worries.  Maybe it takes you to where the most important things in life are?  Love, friendship, honesty, forgiveness,  understanding, caring.

This game means a lot to me.  I am an old guy (57).  I have spent my life not knowing my sexuality.  A friend took me to a brothel while on holiday, I felt nothing, no desire, no embarassment, I might just as well have been in a pub.  I know it would have felt the same in a gay brothel. I only feel any attraction to people after knowing them well for a while, an then they would need to make the first move for any sexual intimacy. So you can imagine how getting to know Cove felt, and then when he revealed his orientation, that hit me hard.  I'd never heard of it, but it seems to describe me completely.  I cried uncontrollably after that revelation.  I grew so attached to Cove, that I just keep going back and playing through again.  I don't want to leave him.  (can you belive it? a 2D cartoon image as you say).

So please don't hate yourself, or think that you are being pathetic.  If your comment is any measure then you are a very nice person who should feel much better about yourself.  If I can give you any advice at all, then do not waste your time trying too hard for too long with people who seem not to accept you for who you really are.  Move on, get to know more people, there are lots of good people out there, and you will meet someone who you need and needs you, I have no doubt of that.

My very best wishes to you for happiness and contentment.

I feel the same about it. The game is beautiful.

This is a beautiful game.  And yes, the characters are very well imagined.  Cove is completely adorable, he felt totally real to me.  So you can imagine how it felt to finish the game.  I can recommend other games with amazing characters (but without the sexual attraction).  DONTNOD's "Life is strange 2" has two brothers on the run from the police after their father is mistakenly shot by the police, that game is an emotional roller coaster.  You will feel you want to move heaven and earth to help Sean and Daniel.  DONTNOD's  "Tell me why" is nice too.  But "Our Life" has to be the most memorable and beautiful game I've ever played, and Cove, the most real and adorable character. 

Yes, it is a beautiful game.  Cove is totally adorable.  And yes, it is a game that had me continually reflecting on my life, and life decisions.  If only I could have grown up with someone like Cove by my side, life would have been perfect.

Ofcourse I cried, who wouldn't?  How could you not be obsessed with Cove.   You meet him crying uncontrollably all alone at the beach, anyone with a heart would be desperate to make him feel OK.  Then as you get to know him, he is absolutely adorable.  I think that your reaction is 100% understandable  :)

"Almost" cried?  Do you have a heart of ice  ;)    I'm a 57 year old man, and more than once I had tears rolling down my cheeks.   :)

It is a truly beautiful experience.  You are right, it would be so nice if it could be made accessible in other languages.  I am English/French, but I'm afraid that my French does not have the nuance to do justice to this wonderful work of art.  To call it a game really does not seem adequate.

I am very old.  I grew up in the 70s in rural England.  To be gay was to face daily abuse  and to be an outcast (I am not exagerating).  I was never brave enough for that.  I didn't even know what my sexuality was growing up.  I just knew that I was not like the people around me.  Imagine reaching the moment where Cove tells you his sexuality, and having learned everything about him so far, it all falls into place.  I am the same sexuality as Cove.  I can tell you, I cried uncontrollably for a couple of minutes.  But not through sadness, just raw emotion.  After 57 years I discover that there must be other people like me.  You will understand how much this "game" means to me. So when you say that this game is theraputic, I know exactly where you are coming from.

Honestly, anything which provides more life with Cove would be excellent.

This is the most beautiful game I've ever played.  The only negative thing I have to say is that the story does not continue for ever.  Play it, you will never want to leave Cove behind.