I enjoyed the art and execution of the game, I played this on a whim, seeing it advertised on the front page, it took me a while to try to encapsulate the feelings the game gave me.

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I'm a person that has suffered with depression and potential suicide in the past. As well as friends of mine (Haven't had anyone commit suicide that was my friend thankfully) I was reading some of the other reviews after having got the ..bad ending...and then the hope ending. I suppose the bad ending felt real, in that "Person I don't really know" aspect. It was also actually emotion inducing. Felt bad.

For the Hope ending tho, I have to agree a little with tonyab09 down there. In particular, Suicidal people are HYPER aware about being a burden, it outright says May usually keeps to herself, and doesn't want to talk/burden the protag. Then in the ending it says "we drove everywhere to find the best therapist so that I wouldn't feel responsible for her/her to feel dependent on me"(dependent=basically a burden) and I -get- the sentiment, its the "how relationships need to be on paper" saying But it's just weird to actually state this...I've helped out friends growing up in foster care to keep living, stop cutting, etc. and never once did any suicidal/cutting person have any thought process like "Okay now I am 100% clingy to you if you don't love me I will kill myself" or anything like that thought process....It really is about being actually heard, actually loved, actually supported 8 times out of 10. The protag just does not feel like the type of person that can "help" people...like a...meathead busy chasing girls or something. what a weird thing to say. If someone said that to me I would feel like if anything they have problems with Walls.

Ugh, but I'm probably a bad person to critique such a thing since I sniff bad feelings out and encourage people to talk naturally. That is probably also just me wanting a more satisfying sort of interaction with..catharsis? In my experience, people want to be seen and heard, for their true self to show through. If we look at children, that is a human being in its natural state...I do not know of any children coming from happy homes to have commited suicide, I'm sure it's happened. Imbalance does happen. More often though, the world is hard. Some people out there have life really hard. Parents and family that have brainwashed them into feelings of worthlessness. And like an infected cell, people in that state feel that maybe the most logical thing to do is to die: to not be a burden, To escape something horrible (such as abuse), Or maybe to try to Feel love or anything, and finally sometimes a person can have a great life but something Big happens, and the sudden shock of everything sends people to suicidal thoughts. Sudden suicidal feelings can be just as dangerous as long cooking ones. Anyways, May's stance also felt weird. I'll just summarize that maybe I wanted to find out the reason for her state of being. She seemed alone. People in a good place aren't alone...so I don't want to chalk it up to "It's just Depression!".

That critique being said, I think it IS good for what it is, it's a short game and a difficult subject matter to tackle...These sort of topics can't exactly ever be done perfectly and those who suffer are more grateful for these sort of acknowledgements than to sweep them under the rug with avoidance of it in media. This game had a lot of hard work put into it.

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I love it :3 Thank you so much

The rating on this could be lower than M, maybe teen, but I think it could be E for everyone. Because it's Newgrounds.