Bro why am I so emotional over an ending where I inhaled some spores????? It left me feeling very.. hollow and empty, I guess, but in a good way. The writing is so fantastic that you get majorly hooked to the characters, and then the gut-punch of "anyway you're in a coma and never wake up" was like... I'm so curious how everyone took that. I had the majority of friends at 10 hearts and the rest at like, 5, and both parents were still alive as well - the utter grief of knowing someone you know closely, or even care strongly for is gone but *not gone* while a civil war is erupting... that's tasty. And awful.

I also am totally new to stat-raising games so I may have fucked my stats or something, maybe this isn't even a "good" first ending to get lol (I was fairly confused, but I don't know if that's because the transcended time ending is meant to be gotten later or if it's just. You know A confusing ending lol). Regardless, gonna take some time to recuperate from this and then jump back into it because my god is it addicting.

It's strange, nothing all that heavy happened in my game aside from, I think, three total deaths and yet I still feel all empty and cold at the thought of going again. I guess it's the knowledge that these (fictional) lives are so fragile and I can 100% fuck things up and hurt them, and that if I want to get all the endings I likely *will* have to do that... oof. Yea, I need to recuperate lol. Sorry for the rambling, don't have anyone to discuss this game with and it hit me HARD in a lot of good ways.

(I included my ending stats just so in case anyone wants to give me some guidance, because again, never played a stat-raising game before - maybe they're too low or too diversified for most endings/playthroughs?)

Never played a stat-raising game before, and just got my first ending -