Recent reviews by Fuchsia Riptide

This game made me confront uncomfortable truths about myself.
It made me realize how much of a perfectionist I am.
It forced me to accept that I cannot be one.
It made me realize how much I prize "getting it right."
It made me realize how easily I give up or take the easy way out.
It made me realize that sacrifices were okay... so long as I survived to the next day.
It made me confront my own selfishness.
It forced me to take responsibility for mistakes.

I did not do very well. I died almost thirty times. I let over 2/3rds of the cast die. I never got a hang of the combat and even with my avoidance, I still got into more fights than I should have. Once, when one small thing went wrong, I redid an entire day. There's a reason it took me 35 hours to complete a game most complete in 20.

Maybe I'm just masochistic, but there was something that became very zenlike about the suffering. I had to let go of perfection -- hell, let go of the idea that I would do well at all. "Doing well" is such a limiting idea, it turns out. As the game always reminds you when you administer antibiotics -- "You did all you could." Even when you administer the wrong ones. That sentiment is peppered throughout and it's what freed me to complete the game, as horribly as I had ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everything up.

Getting through on the "intended difficulty" was brutal for me. Even so, I'm so glad I went on the journey.

I'll probably go again.