sexy fweged recommended this to me as part of this list thanks dude

umh its been a good nights sleep and i still have no idea of what i have played on this day and age and honestly its been a wild ride at this point maybe its ok to not understand anything in this series of games maybe thats just the whole point

im currently going through episode 3 but i wanted to make this review before i get too much into that so that my opinion doesnt get too twisted and convoluted and biased or whatever so here we are

this is still an rpgmaker game as we know and love/despise but they decided to completely delete those number based puzzles that i fucking hate what the fuck honestly like 8 digits passwords ? whats wrong with you anyway theres none of that here thank the gods and the rpg elements are somehow restricted to random encounters that made me fucking jump from my seat every time because theyre just so sudden and unpredictable and got a weird SFX anyway thing is i never even dared to battle these people or how the game says SOCIALISE with them i couldnt give a single fuck about that i got social anxiety do you think id be willingly putting myself into that spot ? no and honestly i think thats the point ? like i didnt try ok but whats even the point of fucking with these bullies/study stressed/mutilated people so yeah thats where the rpg elements end the rest is like talk with person X or get item Y and thats possibly it

now the story umh . this is gonna be wild so SPOILER WARNING ok that being said charlotte is still living together with the oracle in her head that for some reasons is starting to act up so the best thing to do is checking on your cute housemates and seeing what theyre up to theres still felix doing some experiments stuff but he for some reasons distanced himself from charlotte because idk hes scared of the oracle i would be too tbh did you see that hes like a mass of eyes and raw meat disgusting also he saw charlotte melting in chunks of meat id be scared too then theres the LOML bennett hes so cute i love him too much (its because hes traumatised) then like huxley that i realised is a man . embarrassing and then aiden hes cute

now after these already established characters charlotte meets a guy whos getting beaten up and refers to himself as the god of this world and is called C and whatever hes a psycho hes a madman i just know that and then she meets anri who is kind of a bitch tbh and is just leeching off of chalotte but shes her bestie so i cant argue with that

anyway these 2 new characters aside everyone else has a fucking hole in their faces what the fuck like a spiral yknow i dont know what are the implications here but i guess thats gon be because either charlotte thinks theyre nobodies or they deadass have a hole in theyre faces

whatever most of the game takes place either in the school or in charlottes mind while she sleeps where she has real ass convos with the oracle going on and on about how theyre now the same being and its getting really homoerotic here if i can say so and also sometimes talks with the umbrella man who to this moment i have no idea who he is but its implied that he took charlottes fathers form and thats fucked up daddy issues and all

the days go by like this like talk with housemates > go to school > get home and talk with the oracle and thats basically how the main plot unfolds for like 7 days until like the magcats (have no idea what theyre supposed to be) in the garden that she was feeding end up dying and get eaten by worms and shes all traumatised and psychotic and honestly i would be too like imagine feeding a cat and finding him dead because you didnt know the food you were giving him was poisonous guys i would cry for weeks I would need therapy for a year so yeah i really felt her that would be my highest connection with the character

also for some reasons when she feels sick she pukes ink which is ? weird but theyre all like oh yeah you got X disease im sorry its incurable good luck and youre like umh ok like what is this disease cant you explain it to me anyway at first it reminded me of the tale of the ink princess that is also present here btw the oracle tells you about the continuation of the story and its like oh ink princess and paper princess had lesbian sex and i was like oh . period like they ended up getting so close that paper princess got entirely soaked with ink and she was indiscernible from ink princess and thats apparently a metaphor for love ? am i misinterpreting something anyway yeah

and also side note at one point another radioactive costume fella gives you bennetts memory cube and guys . thats so fucking sad oh my god its about him getting tested in labs for an eye disease (as in eyes that grow in parts of your body like organs and such yeah i know unexpected and gross) anyway huxley gets him away from the labs and happy ending but that was fucked up im so sorry

anyway where were we ok charlotte gets neurotic and C is like oh i know a place and they flee from school and get into the outside world which is like post apocaliptic and dead and full of insect people trying to express capitalistic ideals just like that and youre like ok v funny then you get into a suicide forest or something like a mass grave and C is like why dont you come with me and we turn into gods and not give a fuck anymore about this world and you can either accept (bad ? ending you both end up dying in the real world but trascend into a higher plane and idle as gods ? love that for them) or refuse and get arrested and sentenced to a trial

she gets out and bullies are like arent you a queer little shit and they cut her hair i was BAWLING thats so humiliating oh my god charlotte im so sorry and then she gets home with her hair all fucked up and then cuts them in a way they dont look like a fucking mess and shes still cute even with her new hair so ? goals

also I have no idea if charlotte is trans but if she is good for them… goof for them

then go to sleep and read some more memories honestly ? i have no idea what these memories are they feel like delusions and i still have no idea if this world is real or charlotte is just so mentally ill and schizophrenic to make up everything around her but maybe ep 3 got the answers im seeking

anyway THE TRIAL time you get there you got to choose one person to save and the results can be 1 charlotte gets executed 2 C gets executed 3 both charlotte and C get executed

number 1 black ending anri cries (first display of affection i saw her make) and charlotte gets into a very metaphysical convo with the oracle and they procede to have very hot and homosexual hugs and as her consciousness fades away they just get into another ink princess infodump and charlotte tells felix how she thinks ink princess ended up being the happiest person in the world the end i have no idea if this is supposed to be a metaphor for charlotte but honestly i dont know anything about this game

number 2 grey ending charlotte runs and tries to save C that is actually not a god (shocker) and when charlotte realises it she tries to call out to him and run to save him but its too late so she gets ANGRY AS FUCK and just eats the entire world and warps and twists into a new oracle in her anger and after all that she just cries like that then umbrella man which i still dont know why is eveywhere at any time but anyway he gives charlotte a copy of Cs soul and so shes like omg great but then get into like ooooh i will eat your name and all whatever that means and umbrella man finally refers to himself as charles so charlotte gets into a metaphysical plane and watches over every single timeline but nobody will remember about her and gets into 4th wall territory saying that everyone will forget about her but you (seth/the player) will not

clearly this is my fav ending i love despair umhhh

number 3 white ending c tells charlotte hes not a true god etc etc we already know so charlotte unites with the oracle and becomes a god again and has a mental breakdown about the fact that she hurt everyone and such so umbrella man goes omg why cant we just make a meditation journey so you learn how not to hurt people and she goes oh word the end

after all these endings tho umbrella man talks with YOU and goes like oh i can make charlotte oblivious about your existence and you can continue to watch her story unfold so you can accept or refuse the real end (im p sure that the real ending would be the accept the deal one and has some consequence for the next game)

anyway
why did i talk about the whole story wow

umh
embarassing

whatever the thing that completely lured me in this time was the art direction that got ....... so much better guys this game is unreal i swear the art style the different expressions the amount of character sprites and all this is just an elite experience in that way its just incredible every single character and illustration is made with pure talent this is just incredible and honestly the fact that the character portraits are not confined into a little scare makes it even more interesting watching them full body its just ughhhh I love this game

the story is fine I still dont know where this is going but when youre there ? its a fucking ride it has so much raw emotion and mysticism that feels both very real and very dreamlike to the point that I still dont know if charlotte is just making pretend or shes mentally ill (top theory) or the world is actually like that but whatever

ost is cool and I still want them to push it further I know they're still got something in them actually . do the creators compose the music maybe its just sampled stuff ok well anyway I dont care its still cool

in general I feel like this is a big step up from the first game not only in an individual prospect but also in an artistic development kind of way this is just better in every conceivable way possible and still it feels like something else entirely from the first game the artwork is more polished and more convoluted ranging from cute characters to disgusting fucking saya no uta type beat meat monsters the setting is in some ways the same one as the first game but gets even more dystopian and weird progressing from childish and silly landscapes to pure grief and terror

and still beyond all this I find that the psychological aspect of this games shines through like nothing else I've ever played it conveyed dissociation abuse suicidal patterns and never really felt that cringe or tumblrcore like it was handled with absolute care and if you think that this is in some way autobiographical you understand why this feels so in touch with reality and yet also like a fantasy tale of deep trauma and

in its playful use of symbolism and deep psychological insight this feels like an experience from another world that still talks about stuff that we all go through once in a lifetime and i cant be happier to see little game devs publishing artistically questionable but still much needed works of art and anyway

very cool cant wait for hello charlotte 3 to completely fuck my psyche up like nothing else in the entire world im sosososo ready

bennett are you free on Saturday if you wanna hang out im free on Saturday the day that im free

can't believe a game about gods has the most raw human emotion put into it its just incredible

I want to hold charlotte my little baby i love her shes just ughhh why is trauma a thing

the cover art is sick af like what the hell I also like the cover art for HC3 a lot also can't wait to play delirium and heavens gate and see what the fuck they are because to this day I have no idea where this series is heading to

i want a magcat theyre cute af

I will never shut up about how much this artstyle fucks is sooooooo good and since I'm already playing HC3 I can say this is the superior one imo like I do enjoy hc3 art style but this one is just phenomenal