Top 50 Favorites: #8
"A lot of this isn't going to make sense to you, and I'm sorry about that."
Fate exists and it's a cruel motherfucker - memories as a beautiful watercolor painted with blood and tears. Best story writing ever in a video game, maybe in any piece of media/entertainment ever. Deals with how we cope not only with mortality, but with the inherent unfairness that exists in society - when the people we love most and who love us the most cause us the most pain (which is then enacted right back onto them). Unrelenting beauty and deep, bone-chilling melancholy in an inescapable dance to see which will have the biggest imprint on your life. Art design here is a knockout, this was the first game I played which really opened my eyes to the power of the eighth generation of gaming. So amazing that it eviscerated the "walking sim" genre of game in its tracks, because how the hell can you even compete with this? (Even goes the extra mile with an audacious tie-in to another one of my all-time favorite games). Impossible to forget. I love you but this is going to hurt like hell.
"A lot of this isn't going to make sense to you, and I'm sorry about that."
Fate exists and it's a cruel motherfucker - memories as a beautiful watercolor painted with blood and tears. Best story writing ever in a video game, maybe in any piece of media/entertainment ever. Deals with how we cope not only with mortality, but with the inherent unfairness that exists in society - when the people we love most and who love us the most cause us the most pain (which is then enacted right back onto them). Unrelenting beauty and deep, bone-chilling melancholy in an inescapable dance to see which will have the biggest imprint on your life. Art design here is a knockout, this was the first game I played which really opened my eyes to the power of the eighth generation of gaming. So amazing that it eviscerated the "walking sim" genre of game in its tracks, because how the hell can you even compete with this? (Even goes the extra mile with an audacious tie-in to another one of my all-time favorite games). Impossible to forget. I love you but this is going to hurt like hell.