While I had to sometimes put this game down and walk away for a few hours, I always came back until I finished it. It made me cry, not for the story it told, but for how that story resonated in me. This game will find that loss, big or small, and show how it matters. It does it by giving you your own space to experience the world and the characters who are there with you as the world changes. If you get nothing from this but sorrow, look at the moment at the arch. You mattered. Your love mattered. Just because there is loss is no reason to step away, and it's good to let yourself feel that sadness in loss. It's needed. I have never cried over a game this way. I was glad to, and I will gladly tell others that they should experience this for themselves, as only a videogame can make you do. This game was straightforward to play, but it made itself a true wonder in the message it gives. Take your time with it to remember that video games can take you so much further than a surface level amusement, and touch your soul.
