Probably the most bleak, depressing and soul-crushing game I've ever played. So many sections in this game leave you feeling completely empty inside, and even its attempt at humour is so dark that it just comes off as depressing. First of all we have the setting. The world has no females, which means that the men left are essentially just waiting for their doom. Just that is an incredibly bleak concept, but it gets worse, because it portrays all the different ways people act during this apocalypse. The world is riddled with corpses, hanging bodies, people who are broken or have simply lost the will to live, and much more. But the worst thing is the concept of Joy, a drug that makes you feel nothing. The main character, Brad, is addicted to this because of his traumatic past. This is interesting, because Joy is an actual item in the game, which makes Brad a lot more powerful and increases his health, but makes him eventually suffer from withdrawal, which reduces his damage. This makes you consider taking Joy to make the game (and by that, the pain) easier to handle. Another thing this game heavily features is a world where your party members can and will die. You can recruit up to thirty people, but when a central part of your team dies, it just feels painful. I definitely felt a lot of pain towards area 3, so much in fact that I had to shut off the game and do something else. I completed the game after returning to it, and BOY, the ending is surely something. Without spoiling anything, it is bleak as hell and will make you feel empty as all hell. Luckily, this game has some quite amazing gameplay to balance out all the bleakness, so it isn't like a Drakengard completely. It succeeds a lot better than that game did by somehow making the game both fun and painful to play at the same time. I cannot give this game any less than a 9. It was that impactful!