Started Playing: 25/06/2021
First Completion: 04/12/2024
Date of Review: 04/12/2024
As I'm typing this I'm still wiping the tears off my face from the "A Passionate Soul" ending
It's not the first time this game made me tear up, or even cry, but holy shit was it the most intense amount of emotions this game, or maybe any game ever has ever given me.
Between being emotionally overwhelmed and forgetting about it, it took me 3 years of playing on and off to finish this game, but holy fuck was it worth it.
I completed the final act in one sitting, and I don't know if I've ever read as much text in one go as I have with the final act of this ending, I was GLUED to my monitor, I had to keep my eyes from skipping ahead and finding out what was going to happen, it was so incredibly fucking tense.
The fact that a text based flash game, that has a UI less complicated than most main menu screens, written by a single person, has had this much of an impact on me is insane in such a good way.
I notice I'm not writing a lot about the actual contents of the game, and more about the intense amount of emotions I've just experienced, and have been experiencing the last few years with this game, but that's all that my head is capable of at the moment.
The amount of stress I have felt over a fictional cat behind the Stone, Glass and Steel doors, is wild. This is one of the only pieces of media that has truly devoured me into it's own world. Keeping me from having a single thought about something else than the game for extended periods of time, it's like my eyes and brain were physically chained to the box of text on my screen.
I cared so much about this fictional cat through the last few years, I felt bad, good, worried, relieved, angry and extremely fucking happy, all because of this one game, it's like most other games slowly pour a glass of water on my head, and this game just drops me into an ocean of emotions, that I have choose to swim my way out of, or be floating around in for as long as I have the ability to read what's on my screen.
Maybe I'll write more about the specific content of this game later, right now I all I can do is laugh at how fucking amazing this game is.
[NON-STORY SPOILERS FOR FINAL ACT - SELECT TEXT TO READ]
I actually yelled at my monitor when I realised the game had taken away my ability to save during the last act, it made the final act so much more tense, and made me think even harder about my decisions. I first cursed the game for doing this, because it felt unfair, but now I udnerstand that it was absolutely necessary to properly experience the final act, without savescumming, without pause, in one sitting, in one emotional rollercoaster.
I won't go in depth about the NSFW parts of this game, while a vital part of the game, this is not the place I want to do that, maybe another place/time, let me just say, holy shit the writer of this game REALLY knows how to write some good fucking NSFW.
Final Score:
10/10