OMORI

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10 I would like to add that i am a person who generally doesnt cry at any media. Ive consumed countless great titles and nothing has ever startled me like this game. This game will make you tear up. No matter how strong the wall is you have put up this game will tear it down. If you immerse yourself fully into this game you will experience the raw emotions that the artist wants you to feel. This game is not just a fun rpg. Its a psychological piece of art.

Where do I even begin with this game? There's a lot to be said. I first played Omori around 2023. It was the worst year of my life. I won’t get into details, but due to many things that happened, I dropped out of school, didn’t have friends, and never left my room for that year. I essentially became a shut-in. I was left alone most of the time with only my thoughts to occupy me. Since I didn’t have anything to do, I spent a lot of my time on the internet. I met a friend there, and he recommended me to play Omori, so I did. I bought and played it on my Switch, and that was the moment my life changed for the better. The game was heartbreaking, and while obviously there are many detailed differences between the game and my life, I felt it mirrored my current situation at the time dealing with loss, isolation, and being a shut-in. I remembered finishing the game and bawling my eyes out. I remembered sobbing about the game for days not even just because of how heartbreaking the story was, but because of how it gave me a reality check and affirmation of my situation. Even though I finished the game, I had thought about it for weeks. This game obviously didn’t solve everything for me back then, but it gave me a small gentle nudge towards courage to do something, anything, and that small nudge was everything. I finally gained the courage to seek help, which I might've not taken if I didn't play Omori. Those little steps were everything to me. Maybe this game is not for everyone. There are obviously some things about the game I felt could’ve been done better. The art and music is absolutely phenomenal though. The story, even more so. This game gave me my life back, it’s as simple as that. I will always be thankful for the emotional clarity it gave me. It’s genuinely a life-changing game not in a sense that it was groundbreaking at its core mechanics, but at how impactful it is on the deliverance of its themes and story. It does well in making you invested in the characters that it makes things that happened in the game even more emotional. It does well in shining the light on the impact of trauma, and how different people handle loss and guilt. If you’ve ever struggled with mental health, I highly recommend it, and I hope this game helps anyone suffering with declining mental health in a way that it has helped me. Overall 10/10 peak game, would highly recommend.

Almost 5 years since I rolled credits and still one of the most unforgettable and impactful stories I've had the joy to experience.