#anyways I wish i could forget omori so that i can play it for the first time again

[kyeterna]

obligatory mspaint omori meme about the finale

[ajdrawshq]

3, 9, 23 :D

u know u did smth right when i have to re-look up how to do readmores on mobile for an ask cksbxjsbn

3 - 1-3 games you've played in the past 12 months that you really enjoyed

Omori, Radiant Historia, and Octopath Traveler (in that order)!! and probably several more that im currently forgetting bc the last few months felt like years. i saw Omori on game pass n since i remembered seeing the occasional post abt it i decided to try it out and man!!!! good fucking game!!!!! i dont talk abt it often bc theres very little i can say abt it that hasnt already been said, but it means a lot to me - both the games messages and the world n characters. i even got some new mutuals out of it :3 then Radiant Historia.. i could say a million things abt this game and i Have (most of which is still in my drafts) but god i wish more ppl knew abt this thing. it has its flaws for sure but it does some stuff ive never seen in other games, or not quite the way they do it. n im super attached to the characters <3 probably one of my favorite time travel games by far. and then!!! Octopath Traveler!!!! my most recent beloved.. i did Not think id like it as much as i do but now im very not normal abt it. its such a gorgeous game both in story and the general Vibe of it all its just so <3

9 - A game you played completely blind with no prior knowledge of and enjoyed/loved

definitely octopath. i didnt know Anything going into this game other than that someone recommended it to me bc i also like radiant historia so there had to be some kinda similarity there. going into it, i wasnt sure how following 8 seperate characters and 8 seperate storylines would work nor did i think the endgame would tie them all togther that well, if at all. starting up the game wasnt the most interesting, like when ur going around collecting all 8 characters for the first time and trying to keep up with em all, BUT!! its the kinda game that gets good if u put the time and effort into it and before long i already had 100 hours in. after a while i got really attached to the main team id been using and the other 4 were just as interesting, even the ones i didnt expect to like much?? i adore all the different dynamics within this funny lil ragtag found family so much and all their individual stories.. and everything else is incredible too!! the music is SO fucking good its literally all live orchestrations (and all the musicians are credited too!!) and the boss themes and town themes and route themes are all gorgeous. the graphics are fucking ridiculous, like this game has the best water graphics ive ever seen and that is not an exaggeration in the slightest, and the snow is so so pretty, and the blur effects.. mwah. the overworld pixel art is cute and the enemy/boss pixel art is suprisingly beautiful and detailed. the level design for dungeon-esque areas made treasure hunting fun and i like having to search for hidden pathways in a game built in such a different way than im used to (tho i still have yet to find a way to certain treasure chests >:/). and the gameplay - ive never seen an rpg with set characters that is as flexible as this. u can literally build any character any way and it will be perfectly usable and that is so awesome to me. like theres definitely some optimized builds, but if u wanna make the heavy hitting physical tank guy into a magic dps machine there is nothing stopping u. and he Will kick ass. the gameplay is straight up made for u to do whatever u want with it. the whole world is entirely at ur fingertips. anyway very cute game highly recommend it <3

also worth mentioning are omori, 999, and kh3, but only to some extent bc i technically knew at least Some stuff beforehand for each game but not enough to like. Know. yknow

23 - A "wow" moment of awe

ohhh ive been wanting to talk abt this for a while now thank u for enabling me. in octopath traveler, a Big moment for me was entering the .. spoilery true ending area. ive played a lot of games by now. there are very, very few that have 1. made me genuinely worried about a side character ive met 3 times total n had little more than neutral feelings about and 2. made me feel Actual Dread upon entering an area. the vibe is incredible. first going to a place thats talked about only in tales of a recent tragedy, where there is almost no sound, no life, nothing but burnt, abandoned remains, a save point, and an entrance. and when you actually go inside.. good god. the music is haunting. just the very place is haunting - quite literally!! and the massive lore drops along the way,, man. Man. theres a fuck ton of stuff they just drop on you all at once (some ppl dont like the massive infodump style and im usually the same but i was so fucked up by it i actually absorbed it all lmao), but One Specific Reveal alone was its own wow moment and i havent fully recovered from it. and then the final fucking boss(es)???? hello?????? and the fact that within the eye you can even see (spoiler)........ oughhh. and thats not even mentioning the leadup to it all - the hints are somewhat obvious as you complete each characters ending, but they dont really tie together until you find the diaries. some are more subtle, like the previously mentioned reveal that continues to fuck me up whenever i think about it and i have yet to recover from the whole thing. yes the true endgame is ridiculous and hard as shit and everyone hates doing it. yes its one of the most awe striking moments ive ever felt in a game and i wish i could do it again without the literal suffering that comes with it. no its not even worth it but id do it. yes i am so fucking normal about this game

i also need to mention 999, aitsf, and stella glow here bc holy fuck the three of them deserve it. ive talked abt the first two at some point on their own (the safe ending........ that fucking safe ending!!!!!!!!!!) n i dont have it in me to do a whole thing on stella glow after that ^ so just. trust me on this. ill probably rant abt it at some point its really one hell of a game. oh also ffxv but specifically bc of like the first cutscene where it shows the chocobros getting ready to leave bc that was the first time since id played kh1 and kh2 thatd id seen such pretty looking graphics n characters

[white-tulips]

I spent most of this morning continuing playing through the hikikomori route, more of my thoughts below!! (major spoilers ahead!!!!!)

if you haven’t but want to read my first post on my hikikomori playthrough, you can see it [here]!! it’s been a month since I last played any, aha...

I played for quite a few hours earlier but I don’t think I really progressed all that much aha. most of my time went towards grinding and wandering around and seeing little things. oh, and also playing through Orange Oasis. I never actually did that in my first run of the game. it was okay.

I really love how many little details and things to go back to that there are, but I’m still a little bitter at just. how long everything is. I talked about this a lot in my previous post, but it irritates me that the first 15-20 hours (give or take depending on how fast you’re able to blast through this game) is just. exactly the same as what you experience in the main route. especially since now my hikikomori save file is even longer than my main story file, and I think I still have a decent ways to go until I finish. I don’t actually know! I haven’t been spoiled for this route, thankfully, so I don’t really know how much is left. I have a vague idea of a couple areas I need to go to, but that’s about it.

ok, on to my thoughts!! this post is probably just going to be me rambling about tiny details I found interesting since I didn’t progress through much plot stuff, I think.

when I opened up my save file, I. completely forgot what I had been doing a month ago and what I wanted to do next, so I decided to go back to the Last Resort. I don’t know what compelled me to go, but there was a lot of fun stuff there so I’m glad that I did!

I had never tried to use Aubrey to go into the girls’ bathroom before? it was very cute, I liked it. I don’t know why, but as soon as I walked in it really reminded me of Basil. I think it’s all the flowers, photos hanging from the wall, and general soft cutesy vibe. I’m not really sure what to make of that, but it was just my general impression. hmmmm.

I have no words for this other than it just made me amused. go get your vacation, king.

also:

I didn’t know Hero had a confirmed age!! all this time I had been assuming he and Mari were 16 years old, so it’s nice to have something set in stone!

I have no words for these, either. seeing all of the Hero pictures just made me laugh out loud a little I loved it.

when I was standing in Jawsum’s office, I noticed that the elevator behind his desk was shaking. I went to examine it, and was surprised when this was where I ended up.

the black space elevator.

something I completely forgot to mention in my last hikikomori post was black space!! it had completely took me by surprise so I can’t believe I forgot to talk about it.

last time I played and went back to Last Resort, there was a completely black car on the highway and it had really freaked me out. as soon as I clicked on it, instead of giving me some kind of prompt Omori just got in and it drove off. I was so shocked because I wasn’t expecting it fhgjdfhgj. it ended up taking Omori back to one of the black space rooms, and I had no clue what to make of it. I wandered around for a little while, and ended up finding this... friend?

I’m... not sure! who are you......

anyways, so I got in the elevator and we’re back here, now with more spiders.

the spider wasn’t interactable. not sure whether to be upset or relieved.

aaaand then there was this guy in the treehouse. I want to know what these black space NPCs are!!! as soon as I tried to interact with it, the screen glitched out (intentionally) and then it was gone. one day I’ll know what it means.

oh, another thing I spent quite a bit of time doing at the Last Resort-

getting statues made of everyone!! RIP to all of my clams, but these are so cute.

cuuute.

I really liked the comment on Mari’s! it made me happy that it highlighted her playful side.

after I was done reexploring Last Resort, I wanted to go back to Sweetheart’s castle. I was walking through Pyrefly Forest, and I noticed one of the picnic blankets had a cooler open (signaling that you can see a new picnic cutscene) so I went to go sit down and have a picnic.

so, when I was going around earlier and doing some stuff, there were a few picnics that I think I had skipped for some reason so I was doing them and mindlessly skipping through the text for no reason other than it would bother be if I just left them. nothing about the conversations was different even though Basil is here now, so I didn’t think anything would be different for the one in Pyrefly Forest, but I was wrong!! I almost completely skipped through everything aha.

it started off the same, with Hero being scared of the spiders, and then Kel prompted Basil to say something positive to try and make him less scared.

it’s pretty insignificant, but I thought it was interesting that he said pretty much the exact same thing he says in the spider room in black space.

when I got to the castle, I went straight to the library. something about the pattern of going to black space, plus being able to go into the barn in Otherworld, just made me feel like there would be something there. and oh boy was I right. the entire place was crawling with Something.

very good.....

I wasn’t able to get screenshots of them, but there were a couple text popups that really stood out to me. my memory is so bad I can’t remember all of them even though it was only this morning,,, but I’m pretty sure one of them had a popup that was just “Liar.” and I was like HM....

it just really had me thinking....

in my previous post, I mentioned that I had a gut feeling that the Something in the barn was supposed to represent Basil, not Mari. this kind of added fuel to that thought!

the barn in Otherworld was only used in the main route in reference to Basil, with it literally showing Omori a vision of him, and also having Stranger walking into it. now, the library also has a lot of connection to Basil! after picking up one of the keys, it shows us another vision of him, and it’s also littered with egret orchids. I don’t think choosing to have all of these Somethings in both of these places is just a coincidence.

now, about the “Liar.” line. in any fight with Something, if there’s a text popup meant to be Something speaking, it’s always done like this-

with the “???:” to indicate character speech. but the “Liar.” popup was just a standalone line. and it instantly reminded me of this room in black space-

and this just kept making my brain whirl.

in this room, there were all of these popups with “Liar.” and then of course there was-

see here how there also weren’t indications of who was saying ‘liar”, but there was for Something? my idea for this room was always that it was Omori repeating it to himself. because we all know by now that Something is Mari, and her saying “I love you”, especially in this form, is nothing but pure torment. and I think here, we have Omori unwilling to believe it. there’s no way Mari could love him/Sunny. she has to be lying.

soooo then, this brings me back to the library. having the “Liar.” popup there, keeping in consideration that the Somethings there might represent Basil, what could that mean?? it could be in reference to Basil’s words “Everything is going to be okay” because clearly everything is not okay. if all of these Somethings are meant to be Basil, it could fit!!!

... so there’s my long winded theory. idk! I think it makes sense, but I could be wrong!! that’s just my first impressions right now, maybe my thoughts will change when I play more!

moving onto the piano room-

this was when I thought “ohhhh so that’s why the wall always felt hallow. it all makes sense now”

and then I spent the next 30 or so minutes fighting all of the Somethings

I LOVED this. this was the first time a fight was put on a time limit, and since Something was so much more powerful, it felt actually stressful. I was stressed! but I managed to make it with 2-3 turns left, and I didn’t die. I did die about 1 or 2 times to arachnophobia and thalassophobia though F. but it’s okay because I got an achievement and also Omori’s suffocate skill is really good.

anyways I did some more mindless walking around (I had to kill time waiting for all my statues to be built, you know!)

this made me really happy. Big Molio I love you you’re the mvp and you deserve the world.

... looking through my screenshots I wish I could forget this one-

,, do I need to even explain it.

I remember a while ago, I saw someone on twitter post this and iirc the caption was something like “isn’t it a bit morbid to have the jumprope there” and, at the time, I had never gone through Orange Oasis, so seeing that tweet I had the wind knocked out of me. I was just sitting there like “fuuuuuuuuck”. and then I went through Orange Oasis today, saw it again, went “fuuuuuuuuck” and then forgot I screenshot it. it’s just a lot.

okay who knows how I filled the rest of the 6 hours I played because I didn’t take many screenshots of the downtime and running around completing sidequests I never did. the last point of interest today was I had went back to Humphrey.

I didn’t do too much, but I did fight Mutantheart.

I adore her!!!! so cute!!! Mutantheart my beloved.

I lost to her once, because I was a bit confused, but once I caught on to the gimmick of her fight, it was actually pretty easy. rest in peace, queen, I love you...

and then, uh. Her-

I tried 3 times. I didn’t win... all of the characters are maxed leveled at 50, but this is so difficult... well, the first half of the fight I found to be pretty easy, actually. but once she switches into full power mode it’s over. I don’t know how I’m supposed to win. farewell my dream of completing the foe facts book, it was a nice goal while it was realistic. 

and then I stopped for the day! I think I needed that month of not playing, because coming back into the game after a lot of my rage and burnout settled was probably best, and I had a lot of fun playing! hopefully it doesn’t take me another month to continue.

if you made it all the way through this post, thank you for reading! I hope you like my thoughts~

I’ll leave on this note-

king shit

[krismatic]

so. let’s cover what I went through today in OMORI. I’m definitely getting close to the end now.

once again another tw for suicide mention

So I’ll go in chronological order here

Go to Basil’s house, he isn’t there, Polly says he’s at the hospital and I immediately panicked but then she said it was his grandma hospitalized and I calmed down a bit.... before realizing oh fuck it’s his grandma she’s probably going to die and that’s going to really. be very bad for basil.

Then we all go to sunny’s house and the treehouse and wow those scenes were emotional. Holy shit. They’re all happy they got to be friends again, even though Sunny will be leaving. But they wish that Basil could be there with them... ;w;

The photo that was missing was actually in the treehouse and not with Basil. But it had that message again “don’t forget it’s in the toy box” with the key attached. What is in the toy box. I think it’s more photos but I’m not sure.

Aubrey finally explains why she was mean to Basil... hhhhhhh she just wanted to have at least one of her friends back but when she saw the blacked out photos.... she got so angry at him because to her it was like he didn’t care anymore. She felt like everyone just moved on without her and without Mari. She does recognize that she was the one pushing others away, and that everyone was coping with Mari’s death in their own ways which is good!! Like Kel said, “we were kids, it was hard.” It was a lot.

And the tree. The tree where Mari died. It was on the day of the recital where she and Sunny were going to perform that and all of them still remember that day perfectly. They were all affected by it greatly, and that caused them to drift apart... Hero says later “We weren’t there for each when we needed it most, so let’s make sure we’re here for Basil.”

Also a side note the guy in the grave keeper has been saying that someone is going to die this entire game!! My buddy Basil please don’t die..... (jk he died in the bad ending I got to today.... more on that later......)

After doing more ~side quests~ They go back to Polly’s house to see if Basil is back and he is! Except he isn’t talking. At all. He’s not responsive to anything. Everyone agrees to stay at Basil’s house and be there for him which is nice!! Aubrey asks Sunny to visit Faraway Town every once in a while after he moves which is nice. He may be moving, but it’s not goodbye forever! They’re still friends, they’re family imo even after everything that’s happened.

Then. The truth. Sunny goes to sleep, Basil is suffering and it repeats the same text that I think was at the beginning of the game? It’s been a while- “Don’t worry, everything will be okay.” and then “Will you forgive me? My best friend...” which is a great lead up into the Truth.

Sunny and Omori are completely separate. And Sunny breaks the lightbulb which seems to shock Omori.

Sunny has to face his fears again. All of the versions of SOMETHING. And at the end it’s Mari’s body... he gets through all this. It’s difficult for him, but he learns how to overcome.

At the tree Basil says that he was always hoping that Sunny would come back and save him. He waited for him. He also tells him not to turn back from the truth anymore, and that he has to stay strong. I just feel really sad about Basil in general!! He’s faced nearly the same (but not exactly the same) things that Sunny did, but unlike Sunny he couldn’t retreat into a headspace or repress his memories at all. He was all alone for 4 years. Aubrey and the others bullying him definitely didn’t help either, as well as his grandma’s declining health.

Then the Truth. This entire segment was so difficult to go through because you grow so attached to all these characters and learning the truth just hurts.... but you have to face it. Sunny has to face it even though it is physically hurting him and making him bleed in this dream. The slow build up at the beginning that’s a bit confusing with all the photos... and then the photo with Mari and Sunny at the top of the stairs and that piano chord being played. That’s where it all comes together. That’s where you realize what happened. And the whole way it was presented was honestly amazing. It’s absolutely heartbreaking because you see how much Sunny loves Mari and how much everyone else loves Mari as well.

Sunny pushed Mari down the stairs by accident and it killed her. Basil saw it. All the photos are from his point of view. He’s probably the one that had the idea to hide Mari’s death by making it seem like a suicide. Sunny looks so broken in these photos and it’s honestly hard to watch...

So... that’s the truth. Sunny wakes up and. Well.

So!! The YouTuber I’m watching for this is experiencing everything blind and he also wants to get every ending and do the true ending last. So. Today I saw literally the worst fucking ending in any game I’ve experienced ever holy shit it was awful. The YouTuber was kind enough to put a trigger warning before it which is honestly so much more care than most other YouTubers have.

This part is really fucked up so trigger warning for suicide once again and just distressing & depressing topics in general. Seriously.

Anyways. This gets really fucked up. Sunny ignores Basil and goes back to sleep and guess what!!! This whole ending was so painful because these kids started to heal just a tiny bit and then Basil commits suicide. It’s so awful. I’m still not over it. Oh my god. Kel’s reaction stood out especially for me because he is crying. Always-cheerful Kel is absolutely destroyed by what happened. “Why does this keep happening to us Sunny?” That hurt so much. Hero’s still trying to keep everything together and tells Sunny not to look. He doesn’t have to look. And Aubrey is so sorry that she couldn’t help Basil. That she really wasn’t there for him and she doesn’t even know if he ever heard her apology.

And then you can choose to look inside Basil’s room...... and. well. you see that he stabbed himself and Sunny immediately represses it. The room isn’t there. Basil isn’t dead. Basil is fine. He goes immediately back to Headspace. He goes back to being Omori again. And then.... he stabs himself with the knife.

This ending really fucked me up I can not imagine that this game has an ending worse than this. What the fuck.

Anyways luckily that’s all not canon everyone’s fine!!!

So that was my experience today!! A roller coaster of emotions. Can I please get off this roller coaster. Please.

Anyways....... I hope that whatever the true ending is it is much better than this!! I mean it definitely is better than this. There’s no way anything can be worse than this ending.

Alsoo I’m doing fine in case y’all are worried about how this ending is affecting me. It is really heavy and it was messed up so I want to confirm with y’all that I am completely okay and I’m not in any sort of danger. It was a lot but I’m okay, I just needed to get out my feelings about it.

So. Uh. On that note. See you guys in the next post!

edit: to add on to this during the bad end and the moment I saw everyone in the hallway like that I immediately started saying “oh no” over and over again because at that moment I just realized what had happened. Also now I know that the sirens in the hikikomori route ending were for Basil.... not for Sunny. aaaaaaaaaa

edit 2: I completely forgot to mention the hug scene... that was wholesome and I really loved it. Can we please get a group hug with Basil too later? qwq