What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it? - eviltoast
  • EssentialCoffee@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    It Takes Two.

    There’s a point where your characters brutally murder the only nice thing thing in the entire story while it’s begging for its life (your characters are pieces of shit, but the gameplay is good, so you can kind of ignore it). It happens to be the characters’ daughter’s favorite stuffed elephant.

    Then your characters dance gleefully in their daughter’s tears and show no remorse at their daughter crying or any emotion other than woe is us, our brutal murder didn’t work.

    Seriously, one of the most horrific things my husband and I have ever played through in a game. It made us feel sick. We stopped playing after that. The best thing I can do for that little girl is for her shitty ass parents to never waje up so she becomes an orphan. That’s honestly a better outcome for her than having to live with her shitty abusive parents another day. I only wish it had been earlier in the game so we could have gotten refunds.

    I can’t believe they market that game to play with your kids and put that scene in it.

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      10 months ago

      Funny, I stopped playing the game right after this scene but not really because of it. I just couldn’t stand the main characters from the very beginning.

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      10 months ago

      I absolutely hate the story of this game. The parents are horrible ego-centric people who do not deserve to be happy. My wife and I played it and we almost quit at the very end because we were convinced they shouldn’t end up back together. They don’t actually fix any relationship problems besides being reminded why they fell in love and nostalgia.

      It drives me nuts how this game won GOTY when I hated it so much.

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      10 months ago

      The entire time I was doing the awkward sad chuckles asking my partner repeatedly if it was for real and no, no ,no while I dragged it around killing it. I judged the parents soooooo hard for it.