In neither of the two times I played this game, one as a teenager and the other as an adult, did I know how to explain very well why it touched me the way it did. The most I can say is that, despite some mechanics that might seem odd today, the game has a sensibility and nuance that is hard to find in today's big franchise games. I don't just talk about the theme of death because everyone is going to die!! But the exclusion of the unwanted, the connection despite it, the affection, and the non-universal right to mourn. Good gaem.