Essays

Where I put more time, thoughts and effort into. Maybe blood and semen as well. Don't mention it.

Reaching a mutual understanding with people by words and words alone, just to help them witness the miracles beyond the media I so dear recommended even the slightest, is my ultimate goal.

Essays. More than just mere reviewing - not just pointing out the things I liked and disliked about the game, essays are where I pour all of my emotions into. These games managed to touch my heart, made me to contemplate, to think, to wonder deeply about just any particular thing no matter how mundane or extravagant it is. They have so much more than just a good story. Hell, having one is not even strictly required in some instances.

More often than not I just have a better time projecting my thought in English. I sometimes write in Vietnamese too, if I feel like it.

Let's keep this simple. And I don't want this to be an IELTS Writing Task 2 paragraph either.

So...
Why do you consume media?
There are many reasons for that, and those reasons also varied between individuals.

To kill time. To larp. To gather some niche unknown knowledge you can boast about. To indulge in some great stories that you've never experienced before and never knew you wanted them so bad. For whatever reason you want to do with that manga in your room's corner or the URL to the anime you're about to watch on a certain streaming service, I appreciate all of them.

But for me, I consume media to explore other parts of myself that are yet to be discovered. Fetishes, tastes, desires, and by far the most importantly - emotions.

Positive emotions are great. But negative emotions are also no less ecstatic. Actually, I would love to discover the other extremity of human sentimentality. Anime that left me devastated days after finished, they meant so much more to me than those made me laugh.

Same thing goes with VNs. I will try to write something down, to engrave my feelings onto these digital pages, to commemorate the works that bestowed me such experience. Again, it doesn't strictly have to be one with sorrow, sadness or despair. Just try to gimme a really good time, eh?

My first post will be the two games from tonework's, and it's not exaggerated to say that these two VNs changed my life, shaped me into the kind of person I'm right now. They are the pure epitome of "you don't need a good story for your game to be great".

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