This review contains spoilers

This is a story about humanity and its fear of death, its fascination with death, its desire to triumph over death. Slay the Princess is about the fear of one day disappearing from this world. Yet, there will always be something new to take the spot of something old when it dies. Something new, something possibly better, something possibly worse. If we never give that opportunity a chance to live then we're stuck in a neverending stagnation. To fear death is to fear outcome.

The narrator is the fear that lives inside us all. Maybe he's right because we fear what could happen. Should all the people he claims to protect die? That's entirely up to the player. Does everyone deserve death?

The player, as a conduit of humanity, goes through all these different feelings throughout the different routes. Sometimes, you try to fight death as it becomes even more powerful. Sometimes you're infatuated with it. Sometimes, even after death, a life can still have meaning and emotions. Even if you try to escape it, you still reach its doorstep.

At the end of the day, Slay the Princess shows no true answer because maybe there is no correct answer. It would be wrong to invalidate any of the scattered feelings across the various routes of this narrative. The princess is an entity for change and death, and as death is a part of humans, so is life a part of death. That piece of each other is what defines us and proves that both of us exist.

Reviewed on Nov 07, 2023


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