Posted on: June 26, 2018
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Avoid the Pitfall
"Name the fallen human." I don't want it to be you. I wish I hadn't. In gaming since 1990, I now believe this is the worst evil I have ever let into my life. It may be too late to turn away the first wave of players, but for anyone else who's been through this, you're not alone. This program created persistent fear and shame which have been difficult to overcome. Probably some players are more sensitive than others. "I'll be keeping a close eye on you, my little monarch." After the first playthrough, for awhile I called this my favorite game of all time. I thought it was cleverly designed when it pulled impossible surprises and toyed with my emotions, because unlike other games, I felt something real. The plot was well-woven with twists that fit, and the music itself was wonderful and seemed actually tied into the story. "This is all just a bad dream..." I played enough to run through the pacifist ending three times in total. Once I finished and sent copies to friends, intense depression hit me the same day for seemingly no reason. I couldn't get up off the floor for hours. (Incidentally, it got even worse soon after I finished OneShot.) " A n d y o u ' r e n e v e r w a k i n g u p ! " It took divine hindsight to break open the subtlety, and I may write a much deeper exposition later. Suddenly every detail of the game looked backwards, wrong. It was such a near-perfect mirror image of truth that it had the same appeal - but it was a distortion. Now all the little uncanny off-feelings I had at first shrugged off stood out stark and ugly. Human Souls are a major plot element, and they are thrown about carelessly, which is the first thing that seemed creepy. A few of the enemy encounters were revealed to be obscene metaphors. There are many moral traps designed to induce crushing guilt for defending yourself, among other things, and in that world, the idea conveyed is that those "sins" can never be washed away, no matter how many good deeds, or resets.
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