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imagining herself speaking to the player directly. In this conversation, the player is informed about the traumas the character has faced, such as her father's suicide and the mental troubles she has had ever since. The player then interrupts her and advises her to head back home and the game picks back up where it left off. At this point the music stops and instead the sound of wind blowing begins playing, the character elaborates on this by explaining the medicine causes her to hear "terrible and unpleasant melodies" which stop after her medicine wears off. After spending time on the rooftop of her apartment building, she heads back downstairs where her mother orders her to go to bed.
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realization that one foot was walking on the asphalt, and the other on the grass, to which the player must try to teach her how to walk properly. Once inside the store, the player must navigate and remind the character several times to grab and pay for the milk, which is made all the more difficult due to the characters hallucinations and inability to properly communicate with others.
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The sequel contains short but fully animated cutscenes and branching paths with alternate endings. The graphics are less abstract and no longer rendered in monochrome. And while the original game was mostly told from a first-person perspective, the sequel has the player looking at the girl, rather
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The game begins from the first-person perspective, where the player accompanies the girl to the grocery store to pick up a bag of milk for the character's mother. The girl's walk is made extremely difficult by her inability to hypothetically speak a sentence to the cashier, and by her obsessive
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praised the game for not succumbing to the "natural urge" to provide a fix-it for its suffering protagonist, writing that "this lack of answers or any insulting magical fix for a serious and all-consuming state of being hit my soul with the force of a hurricane."
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rated the game 8/10 and found that it dealt with the subject of trauma in an especially honest matter not in spite of, but because the player is unable to save the protagonist. Kohei Fujita of
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than look through her eyes, revealing what she looks like. The game takes on a style that is more common among visual novels where text boxes are accompanied by a drawing of their speaker.
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