Loss of Nothing
So I recently played Katawa Shoujo, as it was free and I'd heard good things. It's a visual novel, so it's not very interactive or much of a game proper. Still, by being presented in game form from a first-person viewpoint, it accentuates my natural empathy and suspension of disbelief over what they'd be if I were seeing the same events as part of a TV show or something. BUT this is not necessarily a good thing.
As Katawa Shoujo is about a young man potentially finding love, it means by the end of things I felt like I'd made and lost a close connection in an incredibly short period of time. Like waking up from a dream and being depressed when you realize it was just a dream. As the "game" doesn't have a huge amount of interactivity or make the results of branching points extremely obvious, I didn't even end up with one of the girls I expected. But I totally feel like I'd be cheating on her if I went through it again to try for a different result.
As Katawa Shoujo is about a young man potentially finding love, it means by the end of things I felt like I'd made and lost a close connection in an incredibly short period of time. Like waking up from a dream and being depressed when you realize it was just a dream. As the "game" doesn't have a huge amount of interactivity or make the results of branching points extremely obvious, I didn't even end up with one of the girls I expected. But I totally feel like I'd be cheating on her if I went through it again to try for a different result.