This game...Goddamn.
I was having the time of my life playing this game. Leah was a bit off-putting since a while back. I feel like the house burning down was... out of the blue, sure, but it was very realistic and plausible. I have seen first-hand what obsessed people are capable of. DrPinkCake was right about one thing. This game does hit pretty close to home. I see here that a lot of people didn't like the move to kill off one of the characters, and in my play through, I noticed one thing.
1. So bear with me here. I didn't quite understand why he couldn't just pick them both up and carry them. His Monoxide exposure was far lower than both of those girls combined. He could have been able to make two trips. If the fire was blocking his way out of the front door, we know he got inside the burning house from a first-story window. The first thing that came to mind while i was playing that section was: "Just drop them through the window you came in from and don't let them hit their heads. I mean, think about it. It's not like either of them are obese or anything; not to mention that under those kinds of scenarios, since they're unconscious, their bodies are not going to register much pain from falling out a first story window (it's like 5 feet tops) and as long as they don't hit their head too hard, there would have been no long term damage.
Unconscious people are much better at dealing with impacts since their bones don't need to withstand both the impact and the muscle spasms that result from an impact. Sorry if I got a little too medical here. In short, there were a few ways to save both of the girls from the fire and the extreme sadness of losing one didn't have to happen. Then again, the fire didn't have to happen either, but that's how the author chose to write their story and I enjoyed it regardless.
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Now, the fact that "Being a DIK" is a prequel to this makes me very sentimental; it makes me think about my own life right now, and how its going to play out. It really captures the forward-only and progression of real life as well as the finality of every choice we make. We get to follow the story of a college kid that has fun adventures through his young adulthood and his experiences into his mid-life years, and all the turmoils and pleasures that come with it. It really made me think, when I am at that age, I am going to reminisce the same way they do. Liam having Cancer and Roy being in a wheelchair... makes me wonder what happened to the other people we met in "Being a DIK", like Jill and Maya, you know?
And as for the main character, the story of him so far is that he came from a low-income family, and got a fortunate shot at college. He meets people along the way and makes typical but special college memories as well as a best friend, Liam, all the while securing an education. He then begins to invest in cryptocurrency and, on a silver lining of fortune, cashes out and becomes financially well-endowed, able to retire at a younger-than-most age. He goes grocery shopping in the wrong place one day, and meets a girl named Megan before the place gets robbed and he ends up in a week-long coma. He and Megan begin to spend time together after that, meeting her best-friend Melissa and a few others. Melissa was a victim of an abusive household that, through the Main Character, finally began to find green pastures in life. Main Character and Megan fall in love after some time and Megan's best friend, Melissa dies in a house fire started by the mentally-unstable and highly obsessed nurse that took care of him while in the coma. Not long before that, Liam is discovered to have a severe case of Hodgkins Lymphoma, a type of cancer that was slowly taking his life, without possibility for cure. After rigorous psychological rehabilitation, as well as Megan, developing her acting career, the two of them get married, with a intimate but immensely enjoyable wedding, and their future from then on is untold, but hopefully happy. And as for Liam... he was not so fortunate.
Just retold the story (badly) for the sake of closure. When you spread it out across both games, it really is a touching story.
Big Thanks to
DrPinkCake for the wonderful, emotional experience.
