it's a regular beach episode ha ha funny ha ha ha, just a beach episode

respectfully, f**k you kan gao

10/10

I was fully prepared to weep, so I made all the circumstances favorable for my personal boundaries and mental safety. No distractions, no witnesses.

The thing is, this series is very close to me, it feels like it was accompanying me on my path through some of the biggest challenges (yet) and grim thoughts. It feels like it gave me comfort each time, a release for penned emotions.
The Beach episode, which I was sure was heavily concentrated on the topics of loss and grief even before I started the game for the first time, well... It happened that way, that it was released just when I was going through a huge loss, and still am on my grief path that I have to complete on my own, five stages and all. Of course, I would cope, in the end. Everyone does.

And even with the memories of how Finding Paradise helped me through dark times, I was scared to start this. Especially knowing how close to home this might hit.

To my surprise, during the whole episode what I felt was sweet sadness and gratefulness for all the happy memories that these characters built along the way, seeing my own story reflected in those images. I even thought that this might me the only game in the series that doesn't make me shed a tear.

Then the end came.

And as I read the text of the final achievement, all the barriers were broken, and there came the flood.

I obviously recommend this to other players, as well as the other games in the series. I lack the words to describe how beautiful they are, and how emotional they make me even with silly premises.