You know how people on Twitter are always like "omg i wish studio ghibli would make a video game!!"? Well they already did, and it's THIS GAME!!. And nobody appreciates it. Nobody except InTheLittleWood also known as Martyn and the 100 or so autistic people I've collected and kept in a discord server for five years. And sure it's flawed and really long because it's a JRPG and there's some really poorly aged stuff in it but it's also cute and charming and has Welsh people in it.
This game has had a stupid amount of influence on me. I learnt the term "soulmate" from this game and for years I didn't realise it was a romantic term. I just kind of assumed they meant that by "meeting my soulmate" I'd meet someone from, like, China or Australia who was almost a spitting image of me, with a similar enough personality and family tree to link us together...
If you want me to sell this even harder -- it's got a soundtrack composed by Joe Hisashi, it's got a beautiful feminine twink AND a pathetic unkempt 30-ish year old man, a beautiful plotline centering around the themes of grief and loss, and a sequence where you induce labour in a giant boob woman by physically entering her womb through her mouth.
I don't know what else you want from me. |