for all its messy sci-fi tangles and caustic irony and sprawling mythologizing this felt raw and tender in a way that kind of really hurt. doubles down on the eminently alien as a ruse to make its naked human ugliness more potent when the time comes, presenting a scenario where the essence of all stress, tension, and threat is mundanely, terribly, crushingly adolescent at heart
a wealth of increased design hospitality baits a hostility that draws from acrid power dynamics, self-destructive altruism, loss of autonomy, strained health, and the uniquely miserable feeling of being a fucked up teenager. that its concluding act leads with its most insincere, grating posturing only to directly pivot into end times earnestness makes for one of the most convincing tonal portrayals of angst and isolation I can think of
instant teencore classic (deeply affectionate)
a wealth of increased design hospitality baits a hostility that draws from acrid power dynamics, self-destructive altruism, loss of autonomy, strained health, and the uniquely miserable feeling of being a fucked up teenager. that its concluding act leads with its most insincere, grating posturing only to directly pivot into end times earnestness makes for one of the most convincing tonal portrayals of angst and isolation I can think of
instant teencore classic (deeply affectionate)
even better than the first, hello charlotte's second episode fixes a lot of issues, with most of those DUMBASS PUZZLES being gone completely.
the worldbuilding is amazing, every character is memorable, and it shows a lot of real-world issues wrapped up in intricate metaphors that are strikingly relatable.
the worldbuilding is amazing, every character is memorable, and it shows a lot of real-world issues wrapped up in intricate metaphors that are strikingly relatable.
This review contains spoilers
Every shell of me was punctured, left to bleed out onto the floor below. The world yelled, hammered, painfully clawing until there was nothing but the byproduct. The body was like hers I could not fathom the similarities I could only feel the unyielding inked connection and how it tore at me. Would there be a day I had not the courage to get up, if the air and lives of us all are so contaminated and filthy.
There's a strange, curious, unimaginable comfort in feeling eyes on you. Eyes whose gaze is powerful, so utterly incomprehensibly strong that all of your soul is laid bare to the world. I did not expect it and knee-jerkingly I wish I could blind it, refute the person and torment it for seeing me. I do not ask to be made this way, I do not enjoy being so vulnerable, I do not sit here in my chair thinking for hours on hours on who I am and what that means for me I do not want to push myself on others' lived experience and find the same frictional questions of DID I CHOOSE THE RIGHT THING IS TRANSITIONING WORTH THE COST WILL THE WORLD EVER LET ME LIVE CAN THERE BE ANY SORT OF HAPPY WAY OF BEING IS THE END TRULY ALWAYS SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO VILE.
That's not important. A full, unearthed happiness is impossible. We cannot simply move the hands in the right place to touch it. There's no complete symbiosis and choosing to leave it was never the right answer. And in such we turn to find others' way "It's the people who meet us that give us color". Utopia is perhaps futile but we are not powerless. Decisions are always up to us and even if they hurt everyone else around us we can but march on. "Seth" would.
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In a sense it's hard to be satisfied with that answer even after I gave it plenty of time to ruminate. I think the series in of itself has changed me and given me a lot to think about over time. I have different conclusions on Ep1 than i did when i published what amounts as a shitpost (but as with most good shitposts imo, one that's at least half true), and I have a strong urge to replay TWC after I'm done with episode 3. I find the series hard to recommend, because most people really shouldn't play this unless they feel they have the right fortitude. There are shards of glass here and now I've added some of my own. There is no hopeful message nor a positive one to go on, which I usually have to say. In an exception to my own sort of creed, I guess that is a fine thing here. Hopefully I can muster the strength to play Episode 3 after I've picked up the pieces. A new favorite
There's a strange, curious, unimaginable comfort in feeling eyes on you. Eyes whose gaze is powerful, so utterly incomprehensibly strong that all of your soul is laid bare to the world. I did not expect it and knee-jerkingly I wish I could blind it, refute the person and torment it for seeing me. I do not ask to be made this way, I do not enjoy being so vulnerable, I do not sit here in my chair thinking for hours on hours on who I am and what that means for me I do not want to push myself on others' lived experience and find the same frictional questions of DID I CHOOSE THE RIGHT THING IS TRANSITIONING WORTH THE COST WILL THE WORLD EVER LET ME LIVE CAN THERE BE ANY SORT OF HAPPY WAY OF BEING IS THE END TRULY ALWAYS SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO VILE.
That's not important. A full, unearthed happiness is impossible. We cannot simply move the hands in the right place to touch it. There's no complete symbiosis and choosing to leave it was never the right answer. And in such we turn to find others' way "It's the people who meet us that give us color". Utopia is perhaps futile but we are not powerless. Decisions are always up to us and even if they hurt everyone else around us we can but march on. "Seth" would.
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In a sense it's hard to be satisfied with that answer even after I gave it plenty of time to ruminate. I think the series in of itself has changed me and given me a lot to think about over time. I have different conclusions on Ep1 than i did when i published what amounts as a shitpost (but as with most good shitposts imo, one that's at least half true), and I have a strong urge to replay TWC after I'm done with episode 3. I find the series hard to recommend, because most people really shouldn't play this unless they feel they have the right fortitude. There are shards of glass here and now I've added some of my own. There is no hopeful message nor a positive one to go on, which I usually have to say. In an exception to my own sort of creed, I guess that is a fine thing here. Hopefully I can muster the strength to play Episode 3 after I've picked up the pieces. A new favorite
"We are born colorless. It's the people we meet who give us color."
Uma coisa que me chamou atenção em Hello Charlotte, desde o primeiro jogo, é o fato da estética ser até que bem agradável, mesmo que psicodélica e perturbada em certos momentos e com o terror psicológico sendo presente na narrativa, boa parte das vezes ao menos, ela não me parece buscar causar um desconforto ao jogador, e esse jogo me faz entender o porquê. Por mais delicada e inocente que Charlotte seja, ela é uma criança extremamente traumatizada, ela busca sempre ver o melhor nos outros, mas nunca a si mesma, e os próprios cenários que ela nos mostra reflete isso, por mais que ela tente ver o melhor e esconder seus medos com cenários simplistas e monocromáticos, ou cenários com cores saturadas, eles ainda conseguem nos alcançar, e é curioso o fato de que os maiores medos da garota, se utilizam desses mesmos elementos para mostrar o quão distorcida é a mente dela. No fim, o que mais me assusta no jogo, é como esses medos vão gradualmente crescendo, e o quanto as expectativas da sociedade comum ao redor dela tem parte nisso.
Kinda hard work to say anything about so i will just say that the bit when you get into the town is such a good depiction of the utter hostility that cities treat children with. Not comfortable at school, not comfortable outside. What else can they do but stay inside?
What the actual fuck
summrs whoa pic
You've done well, dear child.
mudou a trajetória da minha vida. é definitivamente o meu jogo favorito dentre todos os hello charlotte!!! DARIA CINCO ESTRELAS se não fosse meio tosco essa ideia de "individualidade" que é apresentada no jogo :pp Anyways.. charlotte wiltshire is just like me fr --
“Inside a dream, I laugh, and the world laughs with me
Inside a dream, I forget, and the world forgets with me
Inside a dream, I am the world
Hello, world!”
Full of itself to an almost comical degree, yet all the more brutal and real exactly because of this contrast.
Following the thematic input of the first game, the struggle within, against the antipathetic world of false Gods, goes on, this time without even tip-toeing around the subject matter but ramming at full train speed into Charlotte’s reality, in her quest for free will. How does the world reflects in her eyes? Is it bleak, foggy and disgusting, or a wonderful, brighter place worth fighting for? For hope.
Inside a dream, I forget, and the world forgets with me
Inside a dream, I am the world
Hello, world!”
Full of itself to an almost comical degree, yet all the more brutal and real exactly because of this contrast.
Following the thematic input of the first game, the struggle within, against the antipathetic world of false Gods, goes on, this time without even tip-toeing around the subject matter but ramming at full train speed into Charlotte’s reality, in her quest for free will. How does the world reflects in her eyes? Is it bleak, foggy and disgusting, or a wonderful, brighter place worth fighting for? For hope.
oh, to have a yandere parasite in my mind... i love you so much frei
Bro...
KEep accidentally pressing z and choosing dialogue options instead of just advancing them but otherwise yeah good
Really just don't
this is my favorite "rpg" with post soviet blues from an estonian perspective that is also influenced by a social media site beginning with a "t" and ending with an "r"
starting ep3 tomorrow but wanna jot some thoughts on the duology as is. like both quite a bit, maybe ep 1 just as equally as this. in particular ep2 is more forthright in its suffering but cloaks what would be naked cries for help really cleverly. like the titular charlotte the text seems at both ends exorcising some necessary catharsis and questioning whether said catharsis is even helping anything, much less being therapeutic--characters abound with taunts and riddles for the audience investing in charlotte's suffering in hopes for some kind of didactic bow to justify the pain, yet same characters take interest in charlotte's suffering for their very own didactic lessons and utility. tries at all three to both ridicule altruism as an ethical doctrine, pathologize it as a psychological motivation, and dismiss it as a political utopianism---yet, also, offers only calming reassurance that your choice was understandable when you go to grave lengths just to relieve someone's else pain. both more of a 'RPGMaker' game in drawing up social interactions as random battles but also not a RPGmaker game in how ambivalent it is about you engaging with this system at all (could be misremembering but im p sure ep 1 at least had health values but in here they were just ??). conflicted conflicted but far from confused, i think the text is confident in its ambiguity, a read bolstered by the very ending coda being yet another dilemma that pricks at the audience's investment in the narrative. like drake said,,,,, its a combination. uniquely invested in the risk of vulnerability in relationships as shown by the drama and that same risk of vulnerability as a creator to audience as shown in the metanarrative, ane's cooking imo
sexy fweged recommended this to me as part of this list thanks dude
umh its been a good nights sleep and i still have no idea of what i have played on this day and age and honestly its been a wild ride at this point maybe its ok to not understand anything in this series of games maybe thats just the whole point
im currently going through episode 3 but i wanted to make this review before i get too much into that so that my opinion doesnt get too twisted and convoluted and biased or whatever so here we are
this is still an rpgmaker game as we know and love/despise but they decided to completely delete those number based puzzles that i fucking hate what the fuck honestly like 8 digits passwords ? whats wrong with you anyway theres none of that here thank the gods and the rpg elements are somehow restricted to random encounters that made me fucking jump from my seat every time because theyre just so sudden and unpredictable and got a weird SFX anyway thing is i never even dared to battle these people or how the game says SOCIALISE with them i couldnt give a single fuck about that i got social anxiety do you think id be willingly putting myself into that spot ? no and honestly i think thats the point ? like i didnt try ok but whats even the point of fucking with these bullies/study stressed/mutilated people so yeah thats where the rpg elements end the rest is like talk with person X or get item Y and thats possibly it
now the story umh . this is gonna be wild so SPOILER WARNING ok that being said charlotte is still living together with the oracle in her head that for some reasons is starting to act up so the best thing to do is checking on your cute housemates and seeing what theyre up to theres still felix doing some experiments stuff but he for some reasons distanced himself from charlotte because idk hes scared of the oracle i would be too tbh did you see that hes like a mass of eyes and raw meat disgusting also he saw charlotte melting in chunks of meat id be scared too then theres the LOML bennett hes so cute i love him too much (its because hes traumatised) then like huxley that i realised is a man . embarrassing and then aiden hes cute
now after these already established characters charlotte meets a guy whos getting beaten up and refers to himself as the god of this world and is called C and whatever hes a psycho hes a madman i just know that and then she meets anri who is kind of a bitch tbh and is just leeching off of chalotte but shes her bestie so i cant argue with that
anyway these 2 new characters aside everyone else has a fucking hole in their faces what the fuck like a spiral yknow i dont know what are the implications here but i guess thats gon be because either charlotte thinks theyre nobodies or they deadass have a hole in theyre faces
whatever most of the game takes place either in the school or in charlottes mind while she sleeps where she has real ass convos with the oracle going on and on about how theyre now the same being and its getting really homoerotic here if i can say so and also sometimes talks with the umbrella man who to this moment i have no idea who he is but its implied that he took charlottes fathers form and thats fucked up daddy issues and all
the days go by like this like talk with housemates > go to school > get home and talk with the oracle and thats basically how the main plot unfolds for like 7 days until like the magcats (have no idea what theyre supposed to be) in the garden that she was feeding end up dying and get eaten by worms and shes all traumatised and psychotic and honestly i would be too like imagine feeding a cat and finding him dead because you didnt know the food you were giving him was poisonous guys i would cry for weeks I would need therapy for a year so yeah i really felt her that would be my highest connection with the character
also for some reasons when she feels sick she pukes ink which is ? weird but theyre all like oh yeah you got X disease im sorry its incurable good luck and youre like umh ok like what is this disease cant you explain it to me anyway at first it reminded me of the tale of the ink princess that is also present here btw the oracle tells you about the continuation of the story and its like oh ink princess and paper princess had lesbian sex and i was like oh . period like they ended up getting so close that paper princess got entirely soaked with ink and she was indiscernible from ink princess and thats apparently a metaphor for love ? am i misinterpreting something anyway yeah
and also side note at one point another radioactive costume fella gives you bennetts memory cube and guys . thats so fucking sad oh my god its about him getting tested in labs for an eye disease (as in eyes that grow in parts of your body like organs and such yeah i know unexpected and gross) anyway huxley gets him away from the labs and happy ending but that was fucked up im so sorry
anyway where were we ok charlotte gets neurotic and C is like oh i know a place and they flee from school and get into the outside world which is like post apocaliptic and dead and full of insect people trying to express capitalistic ideals just like that and youre like ok v funny then you get into a suicide forest or something like a mass grave and C is like why dont you come with me and we turn into gods and not give a fuck anymore about this world and you can either accept (bad ? ending you both end up dying in the real world but trascend into a higher plane and idle as gods ? love that for them) or refuse and get arrested and sentenced to a trial
she gets out and bullies are like arent you a queer little shit and they cut her hair i was BAWLING thats so humiliating oh my god charlotte im so sorry and then she gets home with her hair all fucked up and then cuts them in a way they dont look like a fucking mess and shes still cute even with her new hair so ? goals
also I have no idea if charlotte is trans but if she is good for them… goof for them
then go to sleep and read some more memories honestly ? i have no idea what these memories are they feel like delusions and i still have no idea if this world is real or charlotte is just so mentally ill and schizophrenic to make up everything around her but maybe ep 3 got the answers im seeking
anyway THE TRIAL time you get there you got to choose one person to save and the results can be 1 charlotte gets executed 2 C gets executed 3 both charlotte and C get executed
number 1 black ending anri cries (first display of affection i saw her make) and charlotte gets into a very metaphysical convo with the oracle and they procede to have very hot and homosexual hugs and as her consciousness fades away they just get into another ink princess infodump and charlotte tells felix how she thinks ink princess ended up being the happiest person in the world the end i have no idea if this is supposed to be a metaphor for charlotte but honestly i dont know anything about this game
number 2 grey ending charlotte runs and tries to save C that is actually not a god (shocker) and when charlotte realises it she tries to call out to him and run to save him but its too late so she gets ANGRY AS FUCK and just eats the entire world and warps and twists into a new oracle in her anger and after all that she just cries like that then umbrella man which i still dont know why is eveywhere at any time but anyway he gives charlotte a copy of Cs soul and so shes like omg great but then get into like ooooh i will eat your name and all whatever that means and umbrella man finally refers to himself as charles so charlotte gets into a metaphysical plane and watches over every single timeline but nobody will remember about her and gets into 4th wall territory saying that everyone will forget about her but you (seth/the player) will not
clearly this is my fav ending i love despair umhhh
number 3 white ending c tells charlotte hes not a true god etc etc we already know so charlotte unites with the oracle and becomes a god again and has a mental breakdown about the fact that she hurt everyone and such so umbrella man goes omg why cant we just make a meditation journey so you learn how not to hurt people and she goes oh word the end
after all these endings tho umbrella man talks with YOU and goes like oh i can make charlotte oblivious about your existence and you can continue to watch her story unfold so you can accept or refuse the real end (im p sure that the real ending would be the accept the deal one and has some consequence for the next game)
anyway
why did i talk about the whole story wow
umh
embarassing
whatever the thing that completely lured me in this time was the art direction that got ....... so much better guys this game is unreal i swear the art style the different expressions the amount of character sprites and all this is just an elite experience in that way its just incredible every single character and illustration is made with pure talent this is just incredible and honestly the fact that the character portraits are not confined into a little scare makes it even more interesting watching them full body its just ughhhh I love this game
the story is fine I still dont know where this is going but when youre there ? its a fucking ride it has so much raw emotion and mysticism that feels both very real and very dreamlike to the point that I still dont know if charlotte is just making pretend or shes mentally ill (top theory) or the world is actually like that but whatever
ost is cool and I still want them to push it further I know they're still got something in them actually . do the creators compose the music maybe its just sampled stuff ok well anyway I dont care its still cool
in general I feel like this is a big step up from the first game not only in an individual prospect but also in an artistic development kind of way this is just better in every conceivable way possible and still it feels like something else entirely from the first game the artwork is more polished and more convoluted ranging from cute characters to disgusting fucking saya no uta type beat meat monsters the setting is in some ways the same one as the first game but gets even more dystopian and weird progressing from childish and silly landscapes to pure grief and terror
and still beyond all this I find that the psychological aspect of this games shines through like nothing else I've ever played it conveyed dissociation abuse suicidal patterns and never really felt that cringe or tumblrcore like it was handled with absolute care and if you think that this is in some way autobiographical you understand why this feels so in touch with reality and yet also like a fantasy tale of deep trauma and
in its playful use of symbolism and deep psychological insight this feels like an experience from another world that still talks about stuff that we all go through once in a lifetime and i cant be happier to see little game devs publishing artistically questionable but still much needed works of art and anyway
very cool cant wait for hello charlotte 3 to completely fuck my psyche up like nothing else in the entire world im sosososo ready
bennett are you free on Saturday if you wanna hang out im free on Saturday the day that im free
can't believe a game about gods has the most raw human emotion put into it its just incredible
I want to hold charlotte my little baby i love her shes just ughhh why is trauma a thing
the cover art is sick af like what the hell I also like the cover art for HC3 a lot also can't wait to play delirium and heavens gate and see what the fuck they are because to this day I have no idea where this series is heading to
i want a magcat theyre cute af
I will never shut up about how much this artstyle fucks is sooooooo good and since I'm already playing HC3 I can say this is the superior one imo like I do enjoy hc3 art style but this one is just phenomenal
umh its been a good nights sleep and i still have no idea of what i have played on this day and age and honestly its been a wild ride at this point maybe its ok to not understand anything in this series of games maybe thats just the whole point
im currently going through episode 3 but i wanted to make this review before i get too much into that so that my opinion doesnt get too twisted and convoluted and biased or whatever so here we are
this is still an rpgmaker game as we know and love/despise but they decided to completely delete those number based puzzles that i fucking hate what the fuck honestly like 8 digits passwords ? whats wrong with you anyway theres none of that here thank the gods and the rpg elements are somehow restricted to random encounters that made me fucking jump from my seat every time because theyre just so sudden and unpredictable and got a weird SFX anyway thing is i never even dared to battle these people or how the game says SOCIALISE with them i couldnt give a single fuck about that i got social anxiety do you think id be willingly putting myself into that spot ? no and honestly i think thats the point ? like i didnt try ok but whats even the point of fucking with these bullies/study stressed/mutilated people so yeah thats where the rpg elements end the rest is like talk with person X or get item Y and thats possibly it
now the story umh . this is gonna be wild so SPOILER WARNING ok that being said charlotte is still living together with the oracle in her head that for some reasons is starting to act up so the best thing to do is checking on your cute housemates and seeing what theyre up to theres still felix doing some experiments stuff but he for some reasons distanced himself from charlotte because idk hes scared of the oracle i would be too tbh did you see that hes like a mass of eyes and raw meat disgusting also he saw charlotte melting in chunks of meat id be scared too then theres the LOML bennett hes so cute i love him too much (its because hes traumatised) then like huxley that i realised is a man . embarrassing and then aiden hes cute
now after these already established characters charlotte meets a guy whos getting beaten up and refers to himself as the god of this world and is called C and whatever hes a psycho hes a madman i just know that and then she meets anri who is kind of a bitch tbh and is just leeching off of chalotte but shes her bestie so i cant argue with that
anyway these 2 new characters aside everyone else has a fucking hole in their faces what the fuck like a spiral yknow i dont know what are the implications here but i guess thats gon be because either charlotte thinks theyre nobodies or they deadass have a hole in theyre faces
whatever most of the game takes place either in the school or in charlottes mind while she sleeps where she has real ass convos with the oracle going on and on about how theyre now the same being and its getting really homoerotic here if i can say so and also sometimes talks with the umbrella man who to this moment i have no idea who he is but its implied that he took charlottes fathers form and thats fucked up daddy issues and all
the days go by like this like talk with housemates > go to school > get home and talk with the oracle and thats basically how the main plot unfolds for like 7 days until like the magcats (have no idea what theyre supposed to be) in the garden that she was feeding end up dying and get eaten by worms and shes all traumatised and psychotic and honestly i would be too like imagine feeding a cat and finding him dead because you didnt know the food you were giving him was poisonous guys i would cry for weeks I would need therapy for a year so yeah i really felt her that would be my highest connection with the character
also for some reasons when she feels sick she pukes ink which is ? weird but theyre all like oh yeah you got X disease im sorry its incurable good luck and youre like umh ok like what is this disease cant you explain it to me anyway at first it reminded me of the tale of the ink princess that is also present here btw the oracle tells you about the continuation of the story and its like oh ink princess and paper princess had lesbian sex and i was like oh . period like they ended up getting so close that paper princess got entirely soaked with ink and she was indiscernible from ink princess and thats apparently a metaphor for love ? am i misinterpreting something anyway yeah
and also side note at one point another radioactive costume fella gives you bennetts memory cube and guys . thats so fucking sad oh my god its about him getting tested in labs for an eye disease (as in eyes that grow in parts of your body like organs and such yeah i know unexpected and gross) anyway huxley gets him away from the labs and happy ending but that was fucked up im so sorry
anyway where were we ok charlotte gets neurotic and C is like oh i know a place and they flee from school and get into the outside world which is like post apocaliptic and dead and full of insect people trying to express capitalistic ideals just like that and youre like ok v funny then you get into a suicide forest or something like a mass grave and C is like why dont you come with me and we turn into gods and not give a fuck anymore about this world and you can either accept (bad ? ending you both end up dying in the real world but trascend into a higher plane and idle as gods ? love that for them) or refuse and get arrested and sentenced to a trial
she gets out and bullies are like arent you a queer little shit and they cut her hair i was BAWLING thats so humiliating oh my god charlotte im so sorry and then she gets home with her hair all fucked up and then cuts them in a way they dont look like a fucking mess and shes still cute even with her new hair so ? goals
also I have no idea if charlotte is trans but if she is good for them… goof for them
then go to sleep and read some more memories honestly ? i have no idea what these memories are they feel like delusions and i still have no idea if this world is real or charlotte is just so mentally ill and schizophrenic to make up everything around her but maybe ep 3 got the answers im seeking
anyway THE TRIAL time you get there you got to choose one person to save and the results can be 1 charlotte gets executed 2 C gets executed 3 both charlotte and C get executed
number 1 black ending anri cries (first display of affection i saw her make) and charlotte gets into a very metaphysical convo with the oracle and they procede to have very hot and homosexual hugs and as her consciousness fades away they just get into another ink princess infodump and charlotte tells felix how she thinks ink princess ended up being the happiest person in the world the end i have no idea if this is supposed to be a metaphor for charlotte but honestly i dont know anything about this game
number 2 grey ending charlotte runs and tries to save C that is actually not a god (shocker) and when charlotte realises it she tries to call out to him and run to save him but its too late so she gets ANGRY AS FUCK and just eats the entire world and warps and twists into a new oracle in her anger and after all that she just cries like that then umbrella man which i still dont know why is eveywhere at any time but anyway he gives charlotte a copy of Cs soul and so shes like omg great but then get into like ooooh i will eat your name and all whatever that means and umbrella man finally refers to himself as charles so charlotte gets into a metaphysical plane and watches over every single timeline but nobody will remember about her and gets into 4th wall territory saying that everyone will forget about her but you (seth/the player) will not
clearly this is my fav ending i love despair umhhh
number 3 white ending c tells charlotte hes not a true god etc etc we already know so charlotte unites with the oracle and becomes a god again and has a mental breakdown about the fact that she hurt everyone and such so umbrella man goes omg why cant we just make a meditation journey so you learn how not to hurt people and she goes oh word the end
after all these endings tho umbrella man talks with YOU and goes like oh i can make charlotte oblivious about your existence and you can continue to watch her story unfold so you can accept or refuse the real end (im p sure that the real ending would be the accept the deal one and has some consequence for the next game)
anyway
why did i talk about the whole story wow
umh
embarassing
whatever the thing that completely lured me in this time was the art direction that got ....... so much better guys this game is unreal i swear the art style the different expressions the amount of character sprites and all this is just an elite experience in that way its just incredible every single character and illustration is made with pure talent this is just incredible and honestly the fact that the character portraits are not confined into a little scare makes it even more interesting watching them full body its just ughhhh I love this game
the story is fine I still dont know where this is going but when youre there ? its a fucking ride it has so much raw emotion and mysticism that feels both very real and very dreamlike to the point that I still dont know if charlotte is just making pretend or shes mentally ill (top theory) or the world is actually like that but whatever
ost is cool and I still want them to push it further I know they're still got something in them actually . do the creators compose the music maybe its just sampled stuff ok well anyway I dont care its still cool
in general I feel like this is a big step up from the first game not only in an individual prospect but also in an artistic development kind of way this is just better in every conceivable way possible and still it feels like something else entirely from the first game the artwork is more polished and more convoluted ranging from cute characters to disgusting fucking saya no uta type beat meat monsters the setting is in some ways the same one as the first game but gets even more dystopian and weird progressing from childish and silly landscapes to pure grief and terror
and still beyond all this I find that the psychological aspect of this games shines through like nothing else I've ever played it conveyed dissociation abuse suicidal patterns and never really felt that cringe or tumblrcore like it was handled with absolute care and if you think that this is in some way autobiographical you understand why this feels so in touch with reality and yet also like a fantasy tale of deep trauma and
in its playful use of symbolism and deep psychological insight this feels like an experience from another world that still talks about stuff that we all go through once in a lifetime and i cant be happier to see little game devs publishing artistically questionable but still much needed works of art and anyway
very cool cant wait for hello charlotte 3 to completely fuck my psyche up like nothing else in the entire world im sosososo ready
bennett are you free on Saturday if you wanna hang out im free on Saturday the day that im free
can't believe a game about gods has the most raw human emotion put into it its just incredible
I want to hold charlotte my little baby i love her shes just ughhh why is trauma a thing
the cover art is sick af like what the hell I also like the cover art for HC3 a lot also can't wait to play delirium and heavens gate and see what the fuck they are because to this day I have no idea where this series is heading to
i want a magcat theyre cute af
I will never shut up about how much this artstyle fucks is sooooooo good and since I'm already playing HC3 I can say this is the superior one imo like I do enjoy hc3 art style but this one is just phenomenal
This review contains spoilers
reality fans vs delusion enjoyers
omori if it was good
it's possible my feelings on this will change upon finishing ep3 but ultimately i'm just starting to think i'm not the target audience for this work and that's... okay. it's clear this was made in the environment of someone stuck in the tumblr-era fandom heyday and dealing with some very real shit, and in ways that still come off as uninformed and perhaps in need of some help that they hadn't received yet - i'm not really interested in a full psychoanalytical discussion of the author because that borders on parasocial in a way i don't think is just.
what i can give this game is a definite growth in artistic originality and some great new concepts for worlds to explore. ultimately though a lot of my feelings about the first game remain here. here's hoping childhood's end is the strike-out people say it is. i'm starting to wonder, though, if this just isn't a game with me landing in its target audience.
what i can give this game is a definite growth in artistic originality and some great new concepts for worlds to explore. ultimately though a lot of my feelings about the first game remain here. here's hoping childhood's end is the strike-out people say it is. i'm starting to wonder, though, if this just isn't a game with me landing in its target audience.
This review contains spoilers
I feel like I should have hated this. Weird thing to say, but with it's entirely unsubtle imagery and ideas, along with an uneven narrative that doesn't fully deliver, this really feels like something I should dislike. I don't, though, which makes this all the more perplexing. This world realized within the game feels like a rabbit hole, or rather, a kid learning about the world for the first time - it inhabits that kind of wonder, which makes the story all the more interesting. I get the ideas, but I'm still not entirely sure what angle they're going for here - escapism? Schizophrenia? A story within a story? A metanarrative? There's undoubtedly a lot to unpack here. It's provoking, in a word. That, combined with striking character designs, poignant music, and a cliffhanger conclusion makes me excited, and a little tenacious, to play the final installment.
eu te amo charlie queria te proteger pra sempre
até agora ainda meio cabreiro traumatizado com bad ending em literalmente todo lugar do primeiro jogo
até agora ainda meio cabreiro traumatizado com bad ending em literalmente todo lugar do primeiro jogo
So initially I was under the assumption only the first episode was free, but it looks like this one is too, so I knocked it out tonight as well. Quite a sizable improvement from the first episode, a lot more story driven, more captivating, less scatterbrained. It's a lot more clear what kind of mood and story they're trying to go for here, basically. A little rough around the edges still, but a massive leap forward and genuinely very investing imo.
How absolutely fucked would it be if mental health
Simplesmente absurdo. A primeira metade confortável é simplesmente quebrada por uma série de acontecimentos pesadíssimos! Construção de personagens impecável e temas muito bem explorados. Só tenho uma pequena ressalva com o sistema de socialização, que ás vezes atrapalha a narrativa.
Muito diferente do EP.1, também muito mais estranho e interessante. Adorei a estética e a Charlotte.
its got courage in all the right places. it's obviously amateur in terms of some RPG maker limitations being not worked around, but i really don't understand how people put this as a criticism when the game obviously has other things it wants to emphasize.
every ending is amazing in it's own way which really shocked me for a chaotic game like this!
every ending is amazing in it's own way which really shocked me for a chaotic game like this!
SCA-Ji should chill out with the subahibi spin-offs
I need to kill myself.