Where do I even begin?
I originally thought visual novels could only make me feel extreme happiness/excitement and sadness. I learnt they can do that as well as many other emotions including not just empathising with a character’s pain, but also feeling it a little. Even scared/worried which isn’t an emotion you get to feel in fiction a lot. This narrative tugged at my heart so much I had to put the controller down for a few minutes every now and then. I knew this game was gonna mess with my emotions, but damn I wasn’t fully ready.

I would be lying if I said I have the same feelings as the protagonist, but aren’t we all souls lost in the sense of normal? I wish well for anyone who is going through difficulty.

As an Irish person it felt so homey and real, even if I live in a much less rural area than an island of the coast of Mayo.

IF FOUND… DOES NOT PULL ANY PUNCHES!!!

Edit: I dragged a friend to my house to watch him play it with the only context I gave him was “Gay culchies” and yeah this story still hits hard and yet at the same time it feels different. I guess just more life experience and experiencing other VNs and other works in general made me understand the characters in a deeper way.