Hauntingly nostalgic and blissful, harrowingly intimate and ultimately holistically hopeful, OMORI is an experience like nothing else. This game is, to me, unfiltered and unadulterated emotion weaved into a game in the most elegant manner possible as to convey these feelings with such intense memorability and longing. I don't know if a video game can ever top such a work for me ; brimming with atmosphere, style, emotion, intimacy and laden with meaning, I quite literally cried my eyes out for the last 3 hours of this game and it lingers on my mind to this day. Everything about this game, especially the ambience, soundtrack and visual design, create intense feelings to immerse you in an already intensely emotional narrative about a boy learning the importance of opening yourself up to grief, sorrow and your own wrongdoings, despite how painful it is. A complete masterpiece, one that uses the medium of gaming as a means of expression in a manner that nearly none have achieved before. The most impactful game I have ever played.

Reviewed on Sep 22, 2023


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