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bixels · 6 months ago

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I just saw one of your fave games is What remains of Edith Finch and I’m so happy! I feel like its a lesser known game but i loved playing through it. I’m so happy to know more than just my small friend group know about this game!

Sorry this isn’t a question. Also want to say that you’re art is amazing and the development of the designs is so interesting to see. Also the way you draw intimate scenes have so much emotion to them. I love the Aj and rarity kissing comic so much, you can just feel their love for each other ;w;

Thank you so much!

I highly, highly, highly recommend What Remains of Edith Finch to anyone interested in narrative game experiences/"walking simulators." It's one of those games that was handcrafted with nothing but love. Every room you explore is just... real. The way the light flows in and makes the colors of the living room, the kitchen, the bedrooms glow. Playing the game is like walking through your childhood home as an adult and seeing how the dust clings to everything you once touched. Also genius-level gameplay mechanics, ones that can make you completely empathetic with the character you're embodying or feel completely complacent in their tragedy. It's really not fair to call it a walking simulator because it's so much more and so much smarter than that.Everyone talks about the fish one.

The theme of death and memory and storytelling and the burden of invisible trauma and self-fulfilling prophecies is so affecting too. The ending made me cry.

#detective-marshmallow #ask me #using this ask to seriously plug edith finch #and to talk about spoilers here #major major major spoilers #because i still think about walter. who saw something so awful and traumatic as a kid that he spend the next 40 years living right under hi #family. and everyone forgot about him #i think about the house. literally aching and creaking with the family's history of strange deaths #i think about sam. who had to grow up in an empty bedroom he once shared with his twin brother. and stare at the partitioned-off side #every single day #i think about edith. who knows she will have a child and knows she will die and continue the family curse but decides to live anyways #god edith didn't even make it to adulthood.#this game tears me up from the inside yet it's so full of love and fantasy and hope #it was honestly really helpful for my death anxiety.#don't fear death. one day you'll go. people will mourn. and then they'll tell stories about you.

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