I remember playing this at a time when I was like super feeling anxiety and just wanting to get some sort of grips on those feelings, and I guess this really works in terms of just like showing a game that precisely contextualises feelings like that. It's like, anxiety is useful given proportion and I like how this shows the sides of it with the sort of decision making or lack thereof with anxiety either being this all consuming thing or something you're numb to and ignore. Some pretty cute and nice looking visuals in this as well. Anxiety is depicted both as a cloak and a barking wolf who either alerts you to danger or is annoying and exists within some sort of malleable combination of both being misunderstood and not entirely understanding itself.

I appreciate what it's aiming to do and I know it's helped other folks conceptualize their anxiety differently, but for me it just felt...condescending, I guess? My anxiety makes me want to explode because I'm a uniquely horrific person, it isn't a quirky Pokémon parody. I just tend to find the cutesying of this shit annoying and patronizing; I'm not a neurospicy forever-child, I'm a grown adult with a host of diseases that want me dead. Maybe part of the problem is that I've been in therapy and doing really difficult work on my anxiety and trauma for years, and this definitely feels more like it's built for people without that base under them.

Different takes on this stuff are going to work for different people and what matters is that it aids healing, so I don't think the game is capital-B Bad for not working with my particular combination of problems and attitudes; if this metaphor works for somebody, then I think that's great. I can see this being a useful entry-level take on mental health and communicating with your mental illnesses for people who haven't done much work in this space before.

I DID love and appreciate the focus on how technically true anti-psych stuff can just become a way to avoid the work of recovery and justify self-harm, but that was about the only part that worked for me personally.

A fantastic brief little experience. The game is available on a browser for free and I absolutely recommend it.

It talks of mental health issues and helped me when I was in a wrong spot in my life. It's visually gorgeous, the animation is eye-candy, the art style is lovely, the musics are incredible.

You'll finish it in around an hour or two.

I definitely didn't expect to be confronted with such a relatable and mature game, capable of so accurately depicting anxiety disorders and the stressful thoughts they carry along without becoming too discomforting or overly trivializing the theme.
This game was a wonderful surprise, and I can say that I felt genuinely understood and accepted in certain difficulties of mine, in a way that I have rarely found even in more complex and ambitious projects.
I'd like to say a lot more because it's a game where you can tell there was really an excellent process of study and understanding behind it, both on a scientific and personal level, but right now I just feel very grateful and hope it will be enjoyed by as many people as possible.