This game was hard to get through. Not in a way where it made me sad, and it’s heavy topics got to my emotional core, but more in a sickly, viscerally upsetting way. The music and visuals are very impressively done, and work to draw you into this space, this character, but ultimately the way it looked, the way it sounded, the wording it used to describe things the character you were following felt gave me a disgusting feeling in my chest. That’s probably the point. It put me in the shoes of a struggling girl, making an audiovisual experience that made me feel horribly unpleasant and almost sick. The character herself is hard to communicate with, being very vague in one moment and laying everything on the table like I’m reading a stranger’s vent post the next. It’s exhausting. But, I mean, that’s probably the point. It’s a game that was very forward in what it said, cutting any sort of meaningful messaging in lieu of just telling me how hard it is to live with mental illness. I know what it’s like to live with mental illness. It’s fucking horrible. But in the end, that’s all it says. That’s what the point is.