Finished it and holy hell, some scenes in this are incredibly tense. The second half of the game picks up a lot of steam and starts delivering on the set-up from the first hours. Special mention to the warrior trial that is in complete darkness, making you use your senses to guide your way which is god damn awesome with the audio mix. And for as much as I'm not a big fan of the fighting system (although it feels good enough), the fight in the sea of corpses feels so good since it's decently tough due to its length. Great set piece!
The voices definitely got to me after a while, too.
I figure this doesn't come close to a real psychosis experience but I feel like I now have a better understanding of how people are affected by it. The game will stick with me for sure.
So while I have some gripes with the game (including some of its writing) I enjoyed it a ton. It feels like an earnest and emphatic attempt at showing how mental illness affects people, not just internally but also through how other people react towards them.
Well, that's how I read it at least.
The voices definitely got to me after a while, too.
At one point they started warning me of my torch running out and although I think it's a fakeout it made me gun it to the closest brazier to "relight" it.
So while I have some gripes with the game (including some of its writing) I enjoyed it a ton. It feels like an earnest and emphatic attempt at showing how mental illness affects people, not just internally but also through how other people react towards them.
Can someone explain the ending for me?All I got is that nothing happened. She didn't die nor got her BF back, and now she got over it or something?
Her challenge was fighting her fears (her personal helheim, so to speak): the fear of having been the cause of the death of her village and lover, and in another sense of being cursed and rotting from inside. She doesn't cure herself of her illness, just beats the sense of having been the doom of those she loved and can move on from it.
Well, that's how I read it at least.