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This is a gameplay review of the demo for Mama.
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00:00 Intro
00:43 Art
00:54 Faces
01:40 Mini-games
03:46 Mic
04:37 Soundtrack
06:05 Emotional
07:08 Text
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0:00
Hello everyone. My name is K and this is
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a pros and cons for the demo of the game
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Mama. I'm not now mom. I'm gaming.
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This was one of the games that
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was on Steam.
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It's like
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it's not an advance.
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It's showcasing
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specific stories. I can't remember
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the point and click showcase.
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I really like point and clicks.
0:29
Uh have not been playing them a lot
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lately,
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but I do quite enjoy them.
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So this was the and it kind of had like
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an emotional look to it. So I was
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I haven't played an emotional game in a
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while.
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First off, I really like the art style
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they went for. It's
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I think it's kind of watercolor.
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You don't really see a whole lot of
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that, so it makes it kind of stand out
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art wise.
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One of the things as well is when
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someone speaks and their head kind of
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pops up,
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it'll have some kind of movement that
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kind of
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makes it fuzzy and blurry.
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I think this is a stylistic
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choice for the artwork because we're
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dealing with Mama who seems to be having
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trouble remembering.
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So dementia or something like that.
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And
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it makes sense for the characters to
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look like this
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because
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if your memory is hazy, then things just
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don't always look right.
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They're not
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pieced together correctly in your mind.
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So it's kind of like portraying that
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when the characters speak to each other.
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One of the things I'm not really a huge
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fan on in this game is the mini games.
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They're not really games per se, but
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there's
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things you can do that kind of breaks up
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the visual novel portion.
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So in this instance,
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we get to move things into our luggage,
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but we can only move so much. And I
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don't know
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if there's specific things you want to
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take that the game wants you to take,
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or if it's all kind of up to you.
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Cuz you can't take everything.
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In the end, I went with our purse, cell
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phone, and jacket,
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which left
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our mom's spare keys, her pearls, and
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the photograph of us.
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I thought maybe I should take the keys,
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like just in case,
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but
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I feel like
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the really important things are what I
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have in the suitcase here. And the game
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didn't object, so I don't know if the
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game would object if you threw in
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something else like the beads, since
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there is two spaces available for it.
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The next thing is when we get on a
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train.
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I guess we're lost in our thoughts and
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we're just piecing together the railroad
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tracks,
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which was a little weird to me,
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mainly because
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you don't always like connect them.
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Sometimes they can be off and then
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connect themselves. It's like, okay.
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You could you just be a little bit
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closer to them, but
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I mean, it is something to do instead of
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just
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waiting for things to happen and just
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reading a visual novel
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and seeing how things play out.
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Maybe during the train ride, I was just
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hoping for something more than her
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thinking of the railroad tracks.
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It'd be different if it was like a
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memory of her and her mom
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during this instance, but
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I don't think that's the case.
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Now, this game does say you can use your
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microphone and camera for it.
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In the demo, the camera isn't involved
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in any way.
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Instead, there is a microphone portion
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where when you come up to mama's house,
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you can either knock on the door if you
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don't want to use a microphone or don't
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have a microphone,
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or you can say Mama into the microphone
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a couple times and she'll answer the
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door, which I think is
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pretty interesting.
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You know, it's a fun little twist.
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It shows us that she's not deaf, so that
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would be
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a little
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annoying to yell mom outside the door
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and her never answer the door cuz, you
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know, she's hard of hearing.
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But I guess that would also defeat the
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purpose of knocking,
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which would mean we should have brought
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the spirit key.
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Another thing I really like about this
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game is the soundtrack.
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It's very
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melancholy
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and emotional in a way,
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especially as things progress. There are
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different moments that trigger a
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different soundtrack that meets the
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mood, which is also really good cuz a
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lot of games the soundtrack just you
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hear it, but it's in the background and
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you start to ignore it cuz it's just
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music on repeat that's
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not as
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catching to your ears as you play the
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game.
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In this scene you need to find some
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matches and a candle. This is kind of
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fun because you really can't see
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anything all that much cuz it is dark,
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but if you click on certain places, Mama
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will tell you if you're close or not. So
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click on one spot, she'll say lower,
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more to the left, and
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she'll just say things until you get
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close enough to click on it and notice
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it.
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So it's not like a hidden object game in
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a way where
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you probably are going to see it.
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You do get a little bit of help from
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mama.
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And then of course mama tries to call
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the electric company because apparently
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she didn't pay your bills.
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And this is kind of sad cuz the numbers
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do come up but you get to a point where
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the numbers keep switching one to
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another.
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So she can't quite remember what the
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number is and then we step in and say
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that we'll do it. This is very
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This game is very reminiscent for me for
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my grandma cuz she had
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dementia.
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And she would get
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My parents would watch her
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on certain days.
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My mom said she would get kind of like
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really agitated
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and just get on her case and yell at her
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about something that didn't really make
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sense.
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And there were sometimes when my grandma
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would like cry because my mom wouldn't
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let her go home even though she was
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home.
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She thought I guess she lived back in
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her childhood house. It's
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It's really sad to think about if you
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haven't known someone who's got dementia
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or anything like that.
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Now one thing that kind of bothered me
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with this game normally to progress the
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text you have to click and then it will
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continue to the next line.
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But in the segment where they're walking
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through town the text moves on its own.
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And then you have different like choices
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to make
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whether you want to go with mama's
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memory or your own memory.
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And I like that idea cuz you can kind of
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pick and choose yourself.
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Maybe she's remembering it right. Maybe
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you're remembering it right.
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It all depends on what you want to
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choose.
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But I don't like the fact that all
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through this time we've had to click to
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continue the story and then in this
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segment it moves by itself.
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It just comes out of left field in my
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opinion.
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Another con for this game is our
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character
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I feel like
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she's blowing this way out of
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proportion. Like
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I realize you're going be upset if you
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hear that
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your parents are
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have some kind of illness, like
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dementia. If you see it happening,
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you're going to kind of realize there's
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something wrong.
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It's her memory. I know it's her memory.
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She's not thinking correctly. So you
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take her to the doctor.
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And if the doctor confirms what your
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suspicions are, yeah, you're going to be
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upset, but
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we're we're like
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nursing home. There's no way. My mom
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doesn't need a nursing home. What kind
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of specialist?
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Psychiatrist.
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I'm sorry. I'm getting a bit agitated,
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doctor. It's also cryptic and
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overwhelming. It's not cryptic. It is
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overwhelming.
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But she's laying it out like she has
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possible dementia. She has memory
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problems.
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How was that cryptic? It's not cryptic.
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We need to calm down. Quit freaking out.
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She's like, can you please just tell me
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what you mean? What kind of disease does
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my mom have?
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Dementia. Dementia.
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I don't know. It feels very over the
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top.
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But I do want to play more of this game
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because it does look very interesting to
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me. I like playing emotional games.
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They just kind of
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I don't know, hit hit you harder while
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you're playing instead of these other
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games where you just go into battle and
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catch
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Pokémon and you know,
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farm and stuff like this.
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You have like a connection with the
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characters that you don't normally have
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in a lot of other games.
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