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What is your "Chicken soup" game? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In essence, what game do you play when you are feeling down, under the weather, or depressed, and what does it do for you?

Mine would be Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. It is one of the first games I have beaten as a kid, and is probably the game I have completed the most amount of times. Everytime I play it, it brings me back to important or comfortable times in my life. It's also one of those games that I just wish I could live in, and everytime I return to this game is liking visiting an old home, or visiting old friends, which I guess is fitting and somewhat comforting given the nature of the game. I grew up with the DX version, but I'll play the original and the Switch remake as well for a slightly different experience. They all have their own way of making the experience feel different or fresh, like the different glitches between the original and the GBC versions, the attention to detail put into the remake, and the feeling of playing the OG version in a Super Gameboy if I'm feeling really old school. It's one of those games where no matter which version I play, it will always take me to a place of comfort.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Megaman Legends and all associated games. There’s a powerful nostalgia that is a fusion of classic Playstation polygon graphics, modest voice acting, story (even for something as simple as spotting a piece of trash and kicking it into a kiosk where someone’s working, something not easy to accomplish with the controls of the day), and more. I fell in love with Bach’s Air as it played in the background of the local museum. The Misadventures of Tron Bonne warned me very early about the real dangers of capitalism long before I was ready to be an adult.

Legends 1 and 2 had a subtle and simple morality system, the signature bright blue armor slowly and gently darkening in color the more bad acts you performed, and with people reacting accordingly.

There’s a beauty in the nostalgia, but also a sadness if you pay attention to the story with an adult’s eyes.

Spoiler Warning

You can figure out where in the grand timeline of Megaman games this series plays, and you can deduce the harsh fate that awaits the human populace from earlier entries as well as glean some hope that somehow, against all odds humanity manages to survive in one form or another.

Spoiler End

For such a simple tale in the surface, it can be surprisingly complex and fulfilling. I wouldn’t hail it as the best entry of all time, but having picked up the first game again a couple of years back and having played it to completion I was shocked how it held up.