Essays

Let's make 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 too.

To kill time. To gather some niche knowledge. To indulge in some great stories that you've never experienced before and never knew you wanted them so bad. Whatever you want to do with that manga in that corner or the URL to the anime on a certain streaming service you're about to watch, 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 that 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".