On centering.

[xyzzysqrl]

Lately my interest in gaming has been growing rather more minimalist. I've been playing a lot of simple, straightforward retro-games, and a fair number of visual novels. Which is odd for me, because the thing about visual novels is that they're... you know. Visual.

I am not a visual person. Even though I love cartoons and anime and visual novels and games and comic books and look I have to analyze this someday goddamn it.

Anyway.

Narcissu is the latest novel I've read through. No interaction whatsoever, a very... well, don't read this if you're depressed. But I liked it a lot, and it made me -feel-, which is good. I played Unvoiced. I'll play through Voiced later. Yes, it makes a difference.

Now I'm in the mood for something lighter. Anyone out there a fan of ren'ai or visual novels, and have a suggestion? (Yes, I'm playing Phoenix Wright and Trace Memory and Touch Detective too. Any others? Commercial or not?)

I'm feeling a lot better all around. In part because I'm taking medication again, in small doses. In part because I had a good cry and let everything out emotionally. And in part because, well... I can't stay down for long. If I have one great success, it's that I am naturally buoyant.

I am not, however, to be used as a flotation device.

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

o.o

Crying and talking are both scientifically proven to help. That's not magic. It's awesome.


And before Meds, people died. A lot. Sometimes they killed themselves, sometimes they killed other people, sometimes they just disintigrated from pure self-hatred and their dark souls congealed to became random monster encounters. It's evolution, baybee. People don't have certain problems 'cause they die if they've got them. Modern medicine lets those problems survive in the gene pool and propogate. Like hereditary allergies; those people are not MEANT to live, yet they do. It's a crime against nature, and we're ON THE LAM!

[orrin.livejournal.com]

Um, it's porn, but back when I was in high school I really enjoyed Season of the Sakura.

[xyzzysqrl]

You know, I played that -ages- ago. I should try it again. It's porn, but it's decently -written- porn with actual emotion in it, so what the hell.

[relee.livejournal.com]

That description reminds me of Demonbane. The erogame so good that they took out all the sexual elements and the story stood on its own in an anime.