Fiction of 2019

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Hell yeah, a new and improved obsessive list

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May

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Katana Zero

GREAT GAME. Its a game that pushes you towards the perfect run and its a blast every second. Excited for whatever the sequel/DLC will be. What a fucking game.

Helen's Mysterious Castle

Unique gameplay for a RPG that I've never seen before or since. It drops you right into a world pre-established and lets you discover the lore secretly right until the final hour. It did its on take on the Undertale idea and it really works. Try it out! Its $2.

Analogue: A Hate Story

Played it on a whim before I went to sleep. Kept playing until I finished it at 4 am. It sparks that same sort of rage you get reading racist/stupid comments online. Its so infinitely infuriating reading that same shit. But that's the point? Its about going through historical documents and confronting the worst of people head-on. Its puzzling through the past to put together the wider picture. And that's rad! It gets pretty Anime in HMM ways and I feel weird about Hyun-ae love arc but its. Still fun! Really interesting and worth a play.

Danganronpa

I watched the anime first and I never care about spoilers and the fandom can be pretty bad but somehow a lot of it still works. I'm always rolling my eyes at the whole "hope vs despair" fight but the whole series is so over the top anyway. And the mysteries are so fun. The anime is on such a tight crunch that the extra time the game gives you to develop each character is a welcome relief. Its fun but sincere, even in its meta jokes.

The Last Door: Season 1

Extremely creepy, somewhat half-baked. It just kinda falls apart when it tries to do bigger things, but the first and second chapter is phenomenal. I was real spooked.

Whispers of a Machine

Nordic cyberpunk mystery! Really fun mechanically with lots of replay value! The endings kinda bum me out! I don't know, I associate cyberpunk with like. Anti-authority and not straight people? This game puts you in a weird spot. Siding with authority gets you away from the weird straightness, but also makes you feel like shit if your character doesn't become a mom. Meanwhile, wanna join the crazy religious revolution? Well, you get two women on a cool roadtrip together, and then your ghost husband shows up to say "remember this is all for Straight Reasons, not gay ones, also don't think about how creepy I'm acting". Its just kind of a bummer!

Its also kind of weird how the power you from being empathetic to people is mind wiping. That feels fucked. Dislike.