A game that has changed my depression entirely: OMORI

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I still remember the day I played omori for the first time, it was a few years ago in my old switch, and at that time, I’ve been suffering with mental health for a long time.

When I first tried out the game, I did know that it was sort of depressing and that it held some dark themes, but I’ve still played it. Honestly, I empathized with the story instantly: the sense of loss and guilt that haunted the protagonist everyday and how it affected his domestic life was like seeing yourself in a mirror. How he went through a hard time to try and reconnect with his friends after the incident despite being the only one that knew the truth was heartbreaking the me. It felt sad, yea, but it also felt human.

At the end, he has to decide in wether accept himself or keep living in his fake reality (that was originally created to cope but it ended up consuming his life more than he liked).

That is something that deeply resonated with me, the games held feelings that I understood perfectly, it was an interesting way of interpreting depression and social anxiety, the feeling of numbness, how it feels hard to go through your daily basis, the fear of what will happen in the future, when you miss the past, scared of what the others may think… It all felt like watching a personal story for someone, for you. The overall message of the story can be extremely beautiful if you think about it.

I definitely think that everyone should at least try to play this game at least once in his life, maybe they can learn a thing or two.