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0:00
Hello everyone. My name is Kay and we're
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bringing to you a playthrough of the
0:05
demo for the game Unqu.
0:09
This game is a bit more depressing than
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some of my other games that I've played.
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I do like emotional storyline games.
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I don't know, something that tugs on the
0:22
heartstrings from time to time.
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Not always about action based stuff like
0:28
that.
0:29
The blurb for the game states this. You
0:32
can't save him. But what if you could
0:35
meet him again? Unquite Gray is a
0:37
heartbreaking time loop visual novel
0:39
about a troubled young woman and the
0:41
kind-hearted musician she loves through
0:43
countless lifetimes.
0:47
Let the game play begin. I like the
0:49
title screen here.
0:53
clearly um giving off the whole musician
0:56
vibe with the strings for the notes, I
0:59
guess. God, I used to be I used to play
1:04
piano, play the guitar, play a couple
1:06
other instruments as well, but I
1:09
couldn't tell you anything about
1:12
what's on the paperwork, what the notes
1:14
are. Like I could read the notes
1:16
themselves, but if you said
1:20
G major,
1:22
G minor, I don't I wouldn't know what
1:23
you're talking about. I had to look at
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the notes to be able to figure out what
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keys to hit like that. But it's unquite
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gray.
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It's musical. It's got a musical thing
1:37
going on. And then it's cracked. So,
1:46
and then we get the actual gameplay
1:49
portion of the overlay, which is I think
1:53
it's supposed to mimic kind of like a
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phone,
1:58
which is cool.
2:01
So many visual novels have just the
2:03
mundane layout of icons at the top or
2:06
icons at the bottom.
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Not so much icons at the bottom, more
2:11
like words at the bottom where uh below
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the actual dialogue of script is. So,
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this is a bit different. I like when
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people
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make game layouts a bit different than
2:24
usual.
2:27
Makes them stand out more.
2:30
You wake up beside the road
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and there's dirt in your hair and caked
2:36
under your nails.
2:39
Your limbs are heavy.
2:43
Your mouth tastes like iron, and your
2:45
head pounds like a spike's been driven
2:47
through it.
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And you groan as you try to move.
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Fabric muscles soft against your cheek.
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It's a jacket three sizes too big for
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you, draped over you like a blanket.
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This slips off your shoulders as you try
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to sit up.
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It's dark out. A thick fog hangs in the
3:19
air around you and chokes out the breath
3:21
from your lungs.
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You can barely see a few feet ahead.
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Weakly, you shuffle away from the road,
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gripping the jacket tight.
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Okay, I'm going to look around.
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It's kind of a bummer that look around
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was an option cuz it'd be really cool if
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if you could just move the screen
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around, look at the environment around
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you, but in this game, you can only move
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like a very minuscule amount of the
3:59
actual screen.
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They made it seem like you would be able
4:05
to fully look around
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this area, but that's not the case. So,
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it kind of like I kind of lied to us
4:14
right there. I feel like it would have
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been better if they just
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allowed us to click on look look around
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without actually having any kind of
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movement to the game itself. The
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movement is actually nice. I do enjoy
4:27
that, but
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I don't know. It feels like I I was lied
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to. Everyone has said to look around and
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I can't.
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We can't like look very far though.
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Fog, tarmac, green, black, slush on the
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side of the road, more dirt than snow.
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You don't know where you are or how you
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got here.
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The last thing you remember is loud
4:57
music pounding into your skull and the
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bitter taste of room temperature beer.
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Examine yourself.
5:07
Kind of makes you have this dreadful
5:09
feeling right now. Like you know what
5:12
happened considering
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the last things you remember is loud
5:16
music and beer. And now you're in the
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middle of nowhere on the road,
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dirt under your nails.
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It doesn't scream of anything good that
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might have happened. You know, feel a
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little bit of trepidation.
5:35
You're not in a pretty state.
5:38
Your hands are scraped. Your cheek
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stings. Your head is still throbbing.
5:44
Makes you think that maybe you got into
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a fight, a scuffle, and that you didn't
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come out the winner.
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You look down at yourself.
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You're wearing a soft knit turtleneck
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jumper,
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short skirt, leggings, black lace up
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boots.
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It's cute, comfy, little suited for a
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trick in the snow.
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You feel around your skirt pockets.
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No phone, no wallet,
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only half a tub of chair lipstick. Dark
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as a bruise.
6:27
Even the description is like dark as a
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bruise. It kind of it's making you lean
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towards something,
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but you don't know if that something is
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what you're making up in your mind that
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might have happened or if it actually
6:43
did happen.
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You don't remember how you ended up like
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this.
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At least you remember your own name,
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though.
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It's
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Rose.
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Your mom said you were the perfect
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little flower she always wanted.
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You hope she can't see the mess of a
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person you are now.
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Check the jacket.
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Fine twill. Silky smooth lining. Literal
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silk.
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Crisp cuffs with engraved buttons.
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The kind of tailoring that screams
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designer.
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It smells like smoke and damp. And
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underneath that, the faintest whiff of
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burnt vanilla and sandalwood.
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You put it on. You're freezing after
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all.
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You have to scrunch up the sleeves to
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get your hands through them. The Jaguar
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reaches to your knees.
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It's definitely not yours. It's a man's
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jacket. Practical and not badl looking.
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You've never seen it before.
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Your uncle only wears lumpy wool coats.
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What are you doing with this?
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Check the pockets.
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You dig through the fleece lined pockets
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and feel the heft of a flat smooth
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object and the crinkle of leather,
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a sleek phone, and sleeker wallet.
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[ __ ] Did you steal somebody's jacket or
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take it by accident?
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There's no way anyone would just hand
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things to you, right?
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If we check the wallet, we might see an
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ID.
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It's sleek black, handstitched.
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Real cowhide, not that polyurethane.
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Polyurethane crap that gets passed off
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as leather. Inside is more cash than
9:08
you've ever held at one time. Credit
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cards, slightly crumpled photo of a
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German Shepherd, and an ID card.
9:16
You really hope you didn't steal any of
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this.
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Check the ID.
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Is that like a younger, more stable
9:29
looking Sepharoth?
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A man with pale hair stares out blankly
9:34
from the plastic. His
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hair is so light you can't tell if it's
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a white or blonde.
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It hangs down his back longer than some
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women keep it.
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You read off his name.
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Corin
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Corin Hunter.
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His birthday says January 29th, 1999.
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Huh.
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So he was born the same year as you.
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Same day of the month, too. Just two
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months ahead of you.
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Your chest tightens and your head starts
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to throb even more.
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And that can't be right.
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There's no way this man could only be 16
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like you.
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Try the phone. Fake ID. Maybe. I don't
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know.
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You don't know where you are. You're
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freezing and you feel like [ __ ]
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The smart thing to do would be to call
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for help, right?
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Even if it turns out you robbed someone,
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you hold up the phone and flick it open.
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Flick it open.
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Oh, okay.
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Not really flick it open, like activate
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the screen maybe.
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A smiling couple lights up the screen
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and for a few stunt seconds you don't
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move, letting it fade back to black.
11:12
You flick it open again and stare.
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Huh?
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The woman on the phone screen is you.
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Or at least she looks uncannily like
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you.
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An older gorgeous version of you with
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long hair falling in perfect waves down
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her shoulders.
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Flawless makeup so light looks like her
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skin's natural glow,
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white teeth, just the right amount of
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gloss on her lips.
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But the biggest difference is that she's
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smiling.
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The kind of aching, fullhearted smile
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you only see on people with something to
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live for.
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The kind of smile you don't ever
12:02
remember making.
12:05
You try to stop your hands from shaking
12:07
and swipe the phone screen again.
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Maybe this will make sense later.
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Maybe your mom had some relative she
12:17
never had the chance to tell you about.
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A secret twin.
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You just need to get out of the cold
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first.
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Back to a world where strange [ __ ] only
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happens in stories and dreams.
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You hit the emergency call button.
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No signal.
12:39
About how your luck usually goes.
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Maybe you could find out where you are
12:44
if you unlock it, though.
12:48
Find some clue as to what brought you
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here, who you got it from,
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or at the very least open up a torch
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app. Those exist now, right? Torch app.
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Try the passcode.
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You decide to try the man's birth date
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for the six-digit code.
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Oh, like I'm going to remember that
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[ __ ] It's 1999.
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I don't know. What was the date?
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I just know 1999.
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Okay, thank you. His birthday is January
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29th, 1999, in case you already forgot.
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Clearly I did.
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I'm going to remember that [ __ ]
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Wait.
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Okay. Wait. No.
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I did that right. Right. 291 999.
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Six digits.
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Is it 01?
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Okay. is 01299.
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What are you an American? It's day first
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then month then year. Oh my god,
14:24
this game's called me out. Okay, so
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290199.
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Who even writes it like this?
14:39
You enter the numbers, but the phone
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doesn't unlock.
14:44
It's not his birthday. Then
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it's still odd that a man who looks like
14:50
he's in his 20s has an ID that says he's
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the same age as you.
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Otter that his birthday is January 29th.
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Well, yours is March 29th. Wait a
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minute. Maybe it's our birthday.
15:05
Otter still that a woman who looks like
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you smiles off from his phone screen.
15:12
Your head starts to thro even more.
15:16
It's too early to give up though, so you
15:18
try another six-digit number.
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29
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039.
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You punch in your own birthday and the
15:35
phone unlocks.
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This is starting to feel less like a
15:41
string of coincidences and more like
15:42
some confusing, [ __ ] up story that
15:44
you're only along for the ride for.
15:48
Nothing makes sense.
15:54
Really? They just drove past.
15:57
The sounds and sounds of a vehicle
15:59
roaring past you makes you foc nearly
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drop it.
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You grab it just in time, finger swiping
16:05
open the photo gallery when they connect
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with the screen.
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100 more U's stare back at you.
16:16
You no, the woman smiling at the camera.
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Candid shots of her reading or walking
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or sipping tea from delicate china.
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The back of her hair burning like fire
16:30
into the sun.
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admiring a rose hedge holding a bouquet,
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wrapping her arms around the man or
16:39
hugging a German shepherd with his tail
16:40
wagging.
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There's dozens of photos of the dog,
16:45
too, sleeping in oppositions or sticking
16:48
its nose in the camera, begging for a
16:50
treat.
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You scroll further.
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Earlier pictures from earlier years.
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the woman younger. So young she almost
17:03
looks like you.
17:08
But even though she's a still photograph
17:10
on a backlit screen, something about her
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looks more alive than you are.
17:18
Something heavy sinks inside you.
17:22
Your knees buckle like they can't
17:24
support your weight anymore.
17:27
You feel like you're going to be sick.
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You feel sick.
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Interesting uh transition here to the
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past. I didn't didn't say anything about
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it going into the past, but one moment
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she was feeling sick to
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again repeating that she feels sick.
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And then this is the flashback.
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It's 11:31 on New Year's Eve and you've
18:03
just puked behind the ZA bush on the
18:06
snow covered front lawn.
18:09
You shouldn't have had that third beer.
18:12
You shouldn't have had any at all,
18:13
probably.
18:16
But you weren't about to act like a kid
18:18
in front of Izzy's beautiful older
18:19
cousin,
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whose parents conveniently decide to
18:24
holiday New Zealand and leave the house
18:26
to a bored 19-year-old with better looks
18:27
in the sense.
18:31
You've always thought you'd rather die
18:32
than look like a coward.
18:36
You certainly feel like you're about to
18:37
die right now.
18:40
Your head throbs. You're freezing.
18:44
Your hands are shaking. And not even the
18:46
cheap perfume you spray too much of can
18:48
mask the smell of vomit after you
18:50
stupidly wiped your mouth in your
18:51
sleeve.
18:54
You hug yourself tightly.
18:58
You left your jacket inside, but you
19:00
don't want to go back in yet.
19:03
Back to the stairs and laughter. Back to
19:06
the pumping bass music that'll only make
19:08
the pounding in your head worse.
19:14
back to Izzy and Katie's eye rolls and I
19:16
told you so faces
19:20
back inside just to hide in the toilet.
19:24
So you sit on the edge of the steps and
19:26
breathe on your hands as you fight back
19:28
the tears in your eyes have no business
19:30
forming.
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It's 11:35.
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There's a noise somewhere nearby.
19:46
You straighten up.
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You're not scared. Not really.
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It's not fully dark. Lights are on in
19:55
the houses across the street, giving a
19:57
soft glow to the empty night.
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But you're definitely not alone.
20:06
You hear it again. The sound of
20:08
crunching, panting, breathing.
20:14
And it's getting closer.
20:18
Your heartbeat races against your will.
20:20
Your vision gets blurriier.
20:25
There's a shape now in the lights
20:27
melting out of the shadows behind a
20:28
street lamp.
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And it's looking at you.
20:35
So, you're a kid. You're drunk.
20:39
There's an odd shape standing somewhere
20:43
out there just watching you. What would
20:47
you do? I'd freak out.
20:51
Huh.
20:53
Weird how she says she's not scared.
20:56
Not really,
20:58
but uh her body is kind of giving signs
21:00
that she is scared.
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Personally, if it was me, I'd go inside,
21:06
but no.
21:11
I feel like
21:13
she's the kind of person that would stay
21:14
outside though.
21:20
Just based on her thought process
21:30
feel like inside will be the coward's
21:32
route
21:34
and then you got the two people
21:38
who are just like going to tell her I
21:41
told you so or whatever, but then you
21:43
got out here
21:46
where you don't really know what the
21:49
shadow's doing
21:51
or where they came from.
21:55
Let's
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I feel like staying outside is what put
22:00
her in this predicament in the first
22:02
place. The whole I don't know where I
22:04
am.
22:10
Hey,
22:12
are you okay?
22:18
The shape is a figure. Two figures,
22:21
actually.
22:23
A boy in a thick jacket who looks around
22:24
your age and a German shepherd told by
22:26
lead.
22:29
The dog lulls its tongue out, looking
22:31
inquisitively at you.
22:34
That explains the panting.
22:38
Your face flushes even redder.
22:42
How could you be so stupid? Imagining
22:44
figures in the shadows like you're a
22:45
child. I think she is a child.
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Not a young child, but
22:54
I'm great. Having the time of my life
22:56
out here puking.
22:58
I'm fine, thanks.
23:01
You mumble something a normal person
23:02
would say.
23:05
You nod sympathetically.
23:09
Family drama.
23:11
You shake your head.
23:14
Friend drama. But family drama sucks,
23:16
too.
23:18
I mean, the only reason I came to the
23:20
stupid party was to get away from my
23:21
uncle. But
23:26
you launch into a conversation that's
23:28
closer to a monologue.
23:32
You probably aren't being coherent at
23:33
all.
23:36
You're not sure why he's listening.
23:39
Maybe hanging out with a sad, drunk girl
23:41
is better than whatever drove him out of
23:43
his house at midnight in the snow.
23:46
Maybe he's worried you're so drunk
23:47
you'll slip and hit your head.
23:50
Before
23:52
you know it, it's 11:59 and the three of
23:55
you, him, you, and the dog.
23:59
We're sitting together in the steps,
24:01
counting down to the new year.
24:04
At some point, he handed you his jacket,
24:07
draping it over you like a cape.
24:10
You only notice when you take a real
24:11
look look at him.
24:15
His hands are tucked in his hoodie
24:17
pocket, pretending he isn't cold.
24:20
Strands of hair peek out of his hood, so
24:23
pale they look silver.
24:26
His cheeks are pale, too, gnome pink by
24:29
the cold.
24:31
You'd think he was blushing if you were
24:32
drunker than you are now.
24:39
You keep petting his dog and chattering
24:41
about nothing.
24:44
Maybe this wasn't the worst way to end
24:45
the year.
24:47
It's cathartic talking to someone about
24:50
all of your woes
24:52
if you don't know the person. It's like
24:54
going to therapy without actually paying
24:56
for it. Like in this game,
25:06
you get a text the next day from a name
25:08
you don't recognize.
25:16
Is that a dog on a keyboard?
25:20
That was a polar bear at first.
25:25
Hope your hangover isn't too bad.
25:26
Princess says hello.
25:29
Or more accurately, woof woof.
25:33
You don't remember giving him your
25:34
number, but the night was such a blur,
25:36
you're not sure what was a dream, but
25:37
what wasn't.
25:39
You're half surprised he wasn't
25:40
something you made up in your drunken
25:42
stuper.
25:44
Oh, I remember, princess. But who are
25:46
you again?
25:48
Just kidding. Thanks for letting me talk
25:50
so much last night.
25:52
No problem. I hope you feel better.
25:57
You stare at the name in your contacts
25:58
list. Core.
26:01
That's an odd name for sure. You wonder
26:04
if it's foreign.
26:06
Maybe it's short for something.
26:08
Cornelius. Cory. Neither fit him. You
26:11
imagine if his name was Cornelius?
26:17
You're not sure if you asked him
26:18
already. Just think about the night
26:20
before makes you too embarrassed to ask
26:21
again.
26:24
You text him back for a while and the
26:25
day after, too.
26:30
And the day after that, too.
26:38
A year later and you're sitting with him
26:39
on the floor of his mother's flat going
26:41
over university applications.
26:45
You're bullshitting an essay. He's
26:47
typing and retyping the same few lines
26:49
on his laptop screen over and over.
26:53
You don't know why you're even trying,
26:55
but I they both don't look happy right
26:57
now.
27:00
You know you'll get the grades for it.
27:02
You never put much effort into school.
27:06
He's the opposite of you. Perfect raids,
27:09
prefect, choir, and orchestra, too.
27:14
He's the responsible one.
27:17
The type that thinks too much.
27:20
The kind that at 17 is already
27:22
struggling between what his heart
27:23
desires and what he knows is safe.
27:28
What would you pick?
27:35
Go for music. It's what he loves. The
27:37
fancy university his dad is offering to
27:39
cover is too good to pass up.
27:42
I personally say go with what you love.
27:46
But
27:50
is she going for music because it's what
27:52
he loves, not what she loves? Cuz that's
27:54
a problem right there.
28:02
But on the other hand, she might not
28:04
like the fact that his dad is covering
28:07
the fancy university.
28:10
It might make her feel like she didn't
28:13
accomplish it herself.
28:19
I'm going to go the music route.
28:23
I haven't said it yet, but I love
28:24
artwork of this game. It's got that
28:30
romantically wholesome feel to it where
28:32
they're not really doing anything
28:34
romantic. They're just sitting near each
28:36
other or
28:38
yeah, mainly that Winnie was sitting on
28:41
the porch steps listening to her. We
28:44
were just watching her while she spoke.
28:47
They're the kind of scenes that make you
28:48
look at them be like, "Oh, that's nice."
28:53
I'm not that good. I don't know if I can
28:55
pass the auditions.
28:57
Are you insane? You're amazing at every
28:59
single thing you do. You only think that
29:02
because you can't tell Bach apart from
29:03
Beethoven.
29:07
You roll your eyes.
29:12
He types something on his keyboard just
29:13
to delete it again.
29:16
Come on, you're not making any progress
29:18
like that. Let's take a break.
29:22
Princess perks up at your words and
29:23
thumps her tail. Break means walk.
29:26
Surely.
29:28
He sies and shuts off his laptop.
29:33
You laugh and tug at his hand in a
29:35
friendly way. Hurry up.
29:41
You wonder what it would feel like to
29:42
hold it tight, to feel his fingers
29:45
squeeze yours.
29:47
You've wondered a lot of things like
29:49
what his lips taste like.
29:52
Whether he thinks you're pretty.
29:56
Are they together right now? I don't
29:58
think he'd be with her if think that.
30:02
Whether he's into redheads.
30:05
Whether he thinks about girls at all
30:07
besides his dog.
30:09
It's weird.
30:12
Whether those long stairs he gives you
30:14
when he thinks you're not looking or
30:15
because you have something on your face
30:17
or because there's something inside your
30:18
head he's trying to peer into.
30:22
She is quite the overthinker.
30:25
Two years later and the answer to every
30:27
one of those questions.
30:32
You're kissing in his bedroom while his
30:33
flatmates are getting drunk outside.
30:37
You strip down to almost nothing, trying
30:39
not to be too lies. You drown yourself
30:41
in his taste.
30:44
I love you, he whispers like an
30:46
incantation.
30:49
I love you too.
30:52
You weave it like a spill into every
30:53
thought, every heartbeat, every intake
30:56
of breath before you kiss him again.
31:03
Later on, you're watching something on
31:04
his laptop, snuggled close together.
31:09
He rests his chin in your hair as you
31:11
lean against his shoulder.
31:14
You don't focus at all on the film.
31:18
He mutters something about the woodwinds
31:19
and the score.
31:24
His shirt is soft and smells like citrus
31:26
detergent.
31:30
A faintly sweet cinnamon candle flickers
31:32
in the dark as you close your eyes and
31:33
drift off.
31:35
Four
31:41
years later and you're walking down the
31:42
aisle of a small chapel dressed in a
31:44
gown you made yourself out of a bold
31:46
satin and lace curtains from a charity
31:48
shop. So
31:51
like seven years now
31:54
cuz it was four and then it was two. I
31:56
don't know what the first one was like
31:57
one year maybe. Oh god the music.
32:04
This is a weird wedding song.
32:11
The songs that Terrell you've you'd
32:13
absorbed in your teenage years weren't a
32:15
waste after all.
32:17
It's not the nicest place. Not the
32:20
nicest decorations. You didn't even
32:22
order a cake. I joke with my friends.
32:26
If I ever had a wedding, I wouldn't have
32:28
a cake. I would just have hostess and
32:30
little snacks
32:33
just stacked up in the shape of a tear
32:35
cake.
32:37
But none of that crosses your mind as
32:38
you take step after step. Your veil
32:41
drifting behind you.
32:44
Your uncle walks with you. It'd be odd
32:46
if he didn't. And there's no one else to
32:49
fill the role.
32:52
You know he's only here for the free
32:53
booze. He actually tries to look like he
32:56
cares today.
32:58
mobile something about your parents
32:59
being proud of you.
33:03
You forget he's there soon enough.
33:09
Your heart's both as light as a feather
33:10
and beating so fast it wants to claw
33:12
itself out of your chest.
33:15
When he looks at you, it's like your
33:17
entire world.
33:20
It feels like the world itself stops
33:22
right then for the two of you.
33:25
He takes your hands, holds your fingers
33:27
warm like sunlight
33:32
and you know all is as it should be.
33:41
Man, did I go full circle? like
33:44
depressed a girl
33:47
to
33:49
happy to exhilarated
33:52
all the way back to depressed
33:55
somehow.
33:58
Two years later and you're on the first
33:59
trip together since your honeymoon.
34:02
Nine years maybe. Nine. Nine so far
34:07
from where we were at the very beginning
34:09
of the game.
34:11
He loves his job. You often come home to
34:13
the sound of him preparing some new
34:15
piece for the children's classes, asking
34:17
Princess for opinion on Vivaldi or
34:20
Boach. Wonder how old the dog is.
34:26
I feel like 9 years old is pretty old
34:29
for a German Shepherd, and we don't know
34:31
what age she was when we first saw her.
34:36
You pretend to be hurt that he values
34:37
the dog's input over yours.
34:41
Even you know the difference between
34:42
Baroque and classical now. At least you
34:45
think you do.
34:47
But the funding cuts get worse every
34:49
year. You watch him work longer hours as
34:52
the bills keep piling up.
34:54
The smile you plaster on your shifts on
34:57
for you shifts at the department store
34:59
feels just as fake as the makeup wrapped
35:00
in fancy plastic that you sell.
35:04
Month after month passes before you save
35:06
up enough for the weekl long trip you
35:07
both wanted to take for ages.
35:14
But now you're here walking hand in
35:16
hand, laughing as if all the tension of
35:19
the last few years has melted away.
35:23
You ask a passing tourist to take your
35:25
picture.
35:27
The day is almost frightfully beautiful.
35:30
It feels like a fairy tale and looks
35:32
just like one, too.
35:35
You walk through the gardens and take in
35:37
the sides, hoping the day will never
35:38
end.
35:51
They look so happy. But I guess looks
35:54
can be deceiving,
35:58
but it does.
36:03
and so does everything else. Does he
36:05
die?
36:13
Less than a year later, you get a call
36:15
from a number you don't recognize.
36:20
He had planned an early birthday dinner
36:21
since he'd be away visiting his mother.
36:25
You told not to be too late. He smiled
36:28
and promised he wouldn't.
36:31
But now he is.
36:33
It's laid out later than he ever stays
36:35
without calling you.
36:38
He hasn't answered any of your messages.
36:41
The fancy dinner you made is stone cold.
36:46
Your hand goes slack as you listen to
36:48
the voice on the other end.
36:57
Your phone falls and lands with a crack
36:58
on the kitchen floor.
37:02
Your body follows suit.
37:06
Princess finds you and curls up next to
37:07
you as you scream and scream over and
37:09
over into the tiles.
37:18
He's not gone.
37:20
You saw him yesterday or maybe the day
37:23
before.
37:25
People don't just disappear like that.
37:30
He'll be back any day now.
37:35
He'll be back soon.
37:38
He'll be back.
37:46
You're not sure when the last time you
37:48
ate something was.
37:50
You were supposed to eat together. No
37:52
matter how late it got,
37:55
you're supposed to wait for him.
38:01
You'd be upset if you didn't wait for
38:02
him, right?
38:05
You don't feel hungry anyways.
38:10
You're not sure when you last slept
38:11
either.
38:14
You're not sure what time it is, what
38:16
day it is.
38:21
You broke your already correct phone
38:23
when you threw it across the room when
38:24
the messages didn't stop.
38:28
He was so young.
38:31
It shouldn't have happened to him.
38:34
I'm so sorry.
38:39
Why do they talk about him in past
38:40
tense?
38:43
He'll come back.
38:48
You hope he isn't upset that you can't
38:49
answer his messages once he decides to
38:51
call.
38:54
You don't have the money to fix your
38:55
phone.
39:01
He knows that you're waiting for him,
39:02
right?
39:08
No, of course he does.
39:11
You love him more than anything and
39:12
anyone, including yourself.
39:16
Of course you'll wait.
39:19
You'll wait forever
39:22
and wait
39:25
and wait.
39:33
And you do see him again
39:40
when you're 16 years old, drunk out of
39:42
your mind and puking behind the Zelia
39:44
bushes on New Year's Eve.
39:50
to be continued.
39:53
Is she just mentally retracing her steps
39:55
again?
39:57
So, this I'm going to assume that this
40:00
is a game about
40:02
getting through grief.
40:09
I liked it. I liked it a lot so far.
40:15
It's interesting
40:19
to go through the psychology of someone
40:24
who's
40:27
I don't know been through something like
40:28
this.
40:31
How their mind works basically.
40:36
I'm interested to see where this goes
40:38
from here
40:40
cuz she doesn't remember anything.
40:45
from the very start of the game.
40:48
Then we get that flashback.
40:52
So, I suppose
40:54
I don't know. It could be her brain
40:56
creating a mental block,
41:01
but if she's remembering the flashback
41:03
there, then don't think that'd be the
41:05
case.
41:06
So given the description of the game, it
41:09
seems like we're just going to go
41:10
through this on a loop over and over
41:12
again. Does that mean we're going to get
41:14
different
41:17
choices to make through these same
41:20
loops? Or are we going to go through
41:22
loops of the different moments like when
41:26
they first met, when they went to
41:28
college, when they got into a wedding?
41:33
Is she going to be remembering all that
41:36
or is it more like a
41:39
hey, let's go back to the start again to
41:42
the day he dies, then go back to the
41:43
start again to the day he dies. It's
41:45
It's not going to be like a thing where
41:47
she's going to try to stop the death. It
41:49
doesn't seem like that to me from the
41:52
demo.
41:54
I feel like just going back through it
41:58
over and over again would be even worse
42:00
for your mental health.
42:03
cuz you're pretending they're there when
42:05
they're not actually there.
42:10
The only thing I can related to is
42:14
Sam from Supernatural
42:18
when the devil was kind of harassing him
42:21
in his head and he finally acknowledged
42:24
the devil and then he just got worse.
42:27
You're not really
42:30
supposed to cling on to it that hard, I
42:33
don't think. But I've never been in this
42:36
kind of situation yet, so I don't really
42:38
look forward to it at all. But yeah,
42:41
it's a really good demo so far. I really
42:44
liked it.
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