Anxiety at the earliest inconvenience: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E22xtpRUYAA7f7w.jpg
I feel like our daring protagonist would be the type to mispell "ayo" as "mayo" just to be a quirky individual y'feel me, and then Anxiety would call her a "mayo monkey" and booom he just invented a new slur, wouldn't that be pretty funny? But it's neither here nor there.
I feel like our daring protagonist would be the type to mispell "ayo" as "mayo" just to be a quirky individual y'feel me, and then Anxiety would call her a "mayo monkey" and booom he just invented a new slur, wouldn't that be pretty funny? But it's neither here nor there.
I'm not usually a big fan of cutesy mental illness metaphors like this, they ring a bit hollow for me and while I appreciate how they help other people, they don't do much for me. However, as someone who does like to think of my struggles with mental illness as a wild, frightened animal, this speaks to that. Plus free projects with good art are always nice.
really fun short game, mountains of interactions, please play this game if you haven't it's free and is super short
I really liked this one!! I like how funny it is and how anxiety is depicted but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t take it seriously. also I like the anxiety wolf it’s very cute. play for urself. Also fuck psych2go. stupid bitchass “uwu mental health introvert > extrovert” type shit. why don’t you be a introvert and FUCK O
If only anxiety was this easy to tame and was this darn cute.
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.
my homie did the soundtrack for this and it rules -w-
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.
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.
really cute and well-animated approach to anxiety feels weird to say but yah a more light-hearted approach to the topic with some very relatable scenes
rigolo
Un juego pequeñito que acabó sorprendiéndome más de lo que esperaba