#this game is so so important to me fr

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

And there's a lake And at the bottom you'll find all our friends They don't swim cause they're all dead We never are what we intend, or invent

and other song that also fits for y'all retro lovers: In the town of broken dreams The streets are filled with regret Maybe down in Lonesome Town I can learn to forget

[hajihiko]

Just two guys being dudes being bro best friends

[pizzagame4000]

we all know human vigilante… but what about… slightly human vigilante

[thedrotter]

thought about it for a little bit and realized re:kinder got me out of a drawing slump thank you re:kinder for changing lives... it's was a while since i felt this satisfied with my art and drew this much till this game popped up in my life . forever changing lives thank you re:kinder whatever would i do without you

[just-a-mod]

I played Soul Void : Redux.

starting this off with : this is a good review and a happy thing

i am putting it under a read more for spoiler purposes uwu

about 5 or more years ago, i first played Soul Void. i found it on tumblr, and thought 'wow, that looks interesting' and showed it to my at the time GF

we both sat down and played it, me watching her at first, before deciding i wanted to play it along side her and go through the experience

getting into this game, immediately i began to see parts of myself in it. struggles i've had, words i've heard from others and from myself. i looked at the characters around me and felt them resonate with me and i felt.

feelings. sorrow, grief. the want to help, compassion and the hopeful feeling of 'don't give up, it will get better!'

i wanted to help them, and in turn by the end of the game, wanted to help myself

that was 5 years ago

i haven't played since, and not for a lack of not wanting to, just not feeling i needed to. i still remembered The Seeker, i remembered how The Leech and The Waiting were. i remembered how it felt, and i continued on.

then i began to forget, but still, i didn't go back. 'not yet', 'i don't need it yet'. it felt like

lately, it's felt like i did. a refresher, a chance to...process? a chance to acknowledge 'hey, these are struggles. these are feelings, but they can be helped. they can get better.

then i saw Redux was coming out. 3-4 months or so ago, i saw the update was set to release July 26, and i waited.

i'd forget for a few weeks, remember, check the date, and then go back to the day to day, only to repeat the pattern a few more times.

yesterday, i remembered. yesterday, i checked the date.

yesterday after D&D, i threw myself into playing again. and it was everything i remembered it to be.

it feels, oddly enough, like a medicine. a kind of salve that stings and soothes at the same time. my mental health isn't (and hasn't been of late) the greatest. victories in some places, loses in others. but progress, i believe, all the same.

going into Soul Void, i get to see all of these people doing their best. encouraging each other, the player and myself to do our best.

seeing The Waiting, The Husk, The Seeker. The Leech. all of them

new faces too, people i hadn't spoken to before! people i had yet to befriend! places i hadn't' seen!

i stepped into the game and hearing new music, reading new dialogue, having a chance to laugh and feel pain and sympathy and 'oh girl, SAME' energy.

getting a chance to stare evenly at the Grim, to find them less scary and more funny this time around.

getting to help The Seeker.

getting to HUG The Seeker.

getting the necklace. having it in the real world. the message behind it.

(ngl i'd pay some amount of money for that necklace as merch, by the way, if not try to juts make it myself. just tell me how it looks and by golly i will figure out some kind of way)

but i sat, and i loved, and i teared up and cried. i felt an ache in my chest that was soothed the further i went in

i listened to my own words being so automatically offered

'you'll be okay'

it'll be alright'

'this will pass'

'you'll get better'

offered to pixels on a screen that held a reflective piece of something i can see inside of myself, and it reminds me to share those with myself.

Soul Void is a game that sits in a special place in my heart. along side shows like Inuyasha and games like Undertale. it is a game that changed my life in an important time, in an important way.

for years to come, i will revisit it. for years to come, i will remember how every one looks at the end of the game, when you've helped them all. when you've helped yourself.

i will be drawing art of Hugging Seeker.

(also i wish we could hug more people, like The Waiting and The Leech. im not upset we cant, i just also wish we could.)

((also also does any one else have such an emotional attachment to The Waiting because i stg i kinda wish we could just sit with him, as the veins stop pulsing? so he's just not...alone..? but idk that's me))

@kadabura from the bottom of my heart and soul, thank you for making this game. Thank you for updating it.

thank you for all the work you've put into it, and for making it a free to play game.

thank you for sharing it with the world, as this game is one of the most beautiful and cherished experiences i've had in my 30 some odd years of life.

thank you for making such a beautiful story and journey that can allow people like me to see kindness for ourselves

i was originally going to send an ask, but tumblr just does not have enough space in one ask for me to express my love for this game.

Thank you so much. i hope your days are filled with the joy and strength to keep getting new ones, and that your nights are filled with dreams of laughter and music

for any one who may be reading this and NOT know what this beautiful game is

and the beautiful soul who made it

Thank you @kadabura

Be safe and Be at peace <3

[aria0fgold]

I think I just felt my heart skipped a beat and not in a good way.

[squiremaximus]

i love you old men in love

[truthundressing]

2024 is starting out so good for me im scared 😳

[queercatboyrights]

amazing how I've put almost 95 hours into bg3 and have yet to progress into act 2 in any of my saves

[psiimaid]

the og line of thought led to twilight specifically but maybe it would be better to say vampire au bc uhm. while a True Twilight AU would be insanely cringefunny it would also be super awful (they do not need to be highschoolers please and thank you)

but idk even just a generic vampire au actually. kinda keeps some of the stuff i really really like abt them in general.

easiest and most true to the original way to go about it is having mai as a vampire n psii human. whether the existence of vamps is common knowledge or not psii Definitely Knows.

sign di + psii are very Into their mortality but there’s some struggle with rosa (vampire, obvs) and her forsaken immortal existence or whatever

anyways psii has some sort of precognition which mai commonly uses to be all “u have vampire powers so obviously 1 day u will b a vampire shit’s easy math 🙄” and while she’s v lonely and has somethinng of a janky moral compass she outwardly respects him declining her offers to turn him so they can be #2gether4ever even if she’s a tad bitter abt it in da moment

and uhh condy? gets involved somehow? (bad) stuff happens + she ends up being the one to turn psii (keeps wanting to correct to psilocybin) but typing this out made me realize the thing i really care about in this au is the “if bad things are destined to happen to you which lead to our closeness is it so selfish of me to want to want that also i’m sad + immortal + no friends.” i Cannot believe i fell for a trojan horse from my own mind,

[quickhacked]

favorite moments from last chapter under the cut because i need to talk about it or i'll explode. sorry i need attention hiiii

[princekirijo]

One of my favorite things about Elden Ring so far is that fighting bosses shirtless is a legit strategy that has helped me twice 💀

[trexzila]

i just think they’re neat

[mewrising]

Oh my WORD my Ultra Sun shiny type null hunt of over 3000 soft resets and a three year pause in the middle (for my sanity) just gave me a shiny type null tonight??? It only took around 500 resets once I started to dual hunt w/ my Sun game???? They're here they're finally here........I am SO pumped you have no idea

[astrxealis]

hi i want to talk about endwalker and heavensward and stormblood lyrics next HAHAHA