Can You Say My Name Again

Can You Say My Name Again

released on Oct 31, 2017

Can You Say My Name Again

released on Oct 31, 2017

Pisti gets kicked out of her home for being trans and Laina ends up taking her in even though she was anxious about it in the beginning. This game is about how their relationship develops and how they bond through their identity and depression.


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thea could, maybe, once settled, once fae gets faer adhd meds write a whole essay about this, but for right now Thea's thought siphonophores are too unruly to pull together.
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One of the rare twine games that functions on a mobile phone and thea read it over the course of three days on the phone in one of it's more functional periods on public transport, coming home from work or going to a rave. It really filtered through thea's brain over the course of the month. Moments keep connecting. Coming back to. Returning.
The game is a hug, a nod of understanding. A taproot-amalgamation of neuroses and anxieties. So warm.
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``Reality exists in a place unknown, and dreams exist within reality. And truth lies in your heart.
The contents of a person's heart shapes their appearance. And new images will change their hearts and their forms.
The power of imagination is the ability to create your own future, and the power to create your own flow of time.
But if people don't act of their own free will, then nothing will change at all. So, you must regain your own lost form by your own volition. ``
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When thea gets lost, burnt out, unknowing of how to put faerself back together, this game will be there. These memory-fragments of other ppl will be there. Digital post-isolation. Stuck in 2017 but free to break out - breaking - itself a process.

Honestly amazing, although incredibly lewd at times. A story about finding romance in the crux of familial decay, a tragically normal tale for trans people. I absolutely love how insecure the naturalism is here. To illustrate, I will quote the best examples:

"Hey", I say as I wave back. I doubt she hears me, since I forgot to raised my voice, even though there's a good distance between us."

"It would have haunted me forever if I hadn't seen her all night."

""Can I sit here? Do people ask if they can sit somewhere? I usually just sit." "

I recently had a girl stay over for only 36 hours at my families house and I was so insecure, when you're around people for the 1st time you feel an urge to put on the best face but it generally falls apart super quickly. It felt mundane but also terrifying, the precarity of it all. Of being seen for the bodysituation you exist in.

Romance is in saying somebodies name back to them simply, I was anti-romance for a long time but I understand now that its as simple as that.

This is a visual novel but also an aesthetic treat for anybody that can deal with an erotic transgirl relationship. We've almost all met online, because there's only roughly 7% of us on earth, and most of us are in hiding. As such, Love meets beyond the flesh.

The biggest fortress of insecurities holds nothing else but an uncontainable yearn for intimacy.