Most definitely most personal game for me this year.

For me 2023 was supposed to be a year of furthering nurturing what I started but in the end it was a year of dealing with truths and realities I didn't believe with full convinction or where ones I didn't confront. I wasn't honest to people I loved and I wasn't truthful to myself. stuff like "Never lose your honesty Naichi." , "Be truthful to your feelings Naichi." during the most pivotal moments of the game those sentences lingered in my head.

So allot of moments in the game felt like they were genuinely meant for me and only me. Like the game has those 4th wall breaking moments yea. But for me it was like I was apart of their fiction rather than they of mine reality.

Which is why I love Raiden so much and even more than I did playing MGR. Raiden a character where his beliefs of what he thinks is reality and fiction are constantly being challenged and confronted. His soul is so rough and unpolished but one thing remains what no one thought but what he just is compassionate. While from a young age never being greeted by sympathy nor empathy. Raiden his character truly does not depict him as the cold blooded killer he and the game make u wanna believe he is. So seeing a character being confronted to stuff I relate heavy too ( not in the experience sense ofcourse ) get thru it or just humanely express himself during them. Was such a unique and soothing journey for me with a character. During the game it genuinely made me reflect on myself, making sure me in the past and me in the present walk hand in hand to myself in the future. I love this game so much about making sure we preserve the past and present that the link between doesn't get lost. That it's humanity duty to do so.

"Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.

Live your truth and never lose conviction in why u believed it in the first place because the chose to believe what we want too is men's greatest form of free will.