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Looking for emotional game recommendations (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My favorite games are Omori, Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds. I cried for hours at the end of those games, and I think the common point in them is high-quality emotional writing and stellar OST (music really affect me) and my attachment to the characters.
I also found that my taste in movies was similar (Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano is my favorite movie)
I've been trying to find something similar, so has anybody any recommendation?
I'd like to add that I basically hated Nier Automata (way too pretentious imo) and Before your Eyes (I wasn't a fan of the game concept, and found the story pretty weak), and really loved the horror aspects of Omori.
I also heard about To the moon, but games talking about disease are hard for me to enjoy

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Maybe What Remains of Edith Finch? Also, maybe it was just a weird time in my life, but I think I bawled hardest at the end of FFVII: Crisis Core back in the PSP days. Braid is an emotionally weird one as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I played ff7 crisis core when I was 10 or so... It was wonderful I never heard of Braid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Braid is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer with a mind-bending and somewhat heartbreaking twist at the end. I played it ages ago, but will never forget it. I don’t think it was very long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I loved Crisis Core. But Final Fantasy X got me a lot more emotional.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Funnily enough, I own FFX on like three different platforms but still haven’t played it through to the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Edith Finch is pretty squarely a "walking simulator," but by far the best one I've played (Firewatch is up there, but didn't stick with me the same way). It makes the most of its relatively simple gameplay by adding in a bunch of unique gimmicks and visuals for each section.