Awww, that's cute, Omori's friends just trying to help him feel emotions again. x3c
Ahh, let's see... I'm trying to remember if I watched or read anything about Omori before finishing the game. I think I did. I would watch let's plays, but not past whatever part I had left off. And I would sometimes look up specific compilations of moments that got me haha.
I don't remember where I posted about this part, but when I first opened the door and saw Hellmari, I flipped out like, "WHAT!!? I didn't know it was THAT kind of game!!" hahaha and then, to make my experience even more brilliant, I never went back into the bathroom until the night Kel and Hero stayed over. Actually yeah, lemme find where I wrote about that cause like, it hit me SUPER hard compared to if I had just seen it the same night I opened the door.
"The cherry on top is that I had already walked into Sunny's bedroom and talked to the brothers in their adorable pillow forte with lovely music playing and all that. And then I immediately went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror and saw this, for as long as I wanted to stare at it. And this... timing for me REALLY pierced me with Sunny's loneliness.
To have two people you trust sleeping in the same room as you, having created a cozy, warm, inviting, safe little space to spend with you. And to still be haunted by such horrific visions IN THE NEXT ROOM OVER is goddamn tragic. I know you can get other jumpscares in the mirror on this night as well, but for me, HellMari was always one of the scariest images in the game, at least for awhile until I got used to her. And this was only my second time even seeing her, the first being a split-second glimpse. So yeah. Absolutely terrifying and further indicative of how mentally isolated Sunny is."
Ah! I also got SLIGHTLY spoiled simply with a vague, colorful screenshot (a video thumbnail) and the idea of Basil's "deaths", and I was like, "Wh—?? Huh??"
Omg when the watermelon thing happened to me, it was one of the most amazing experiences I've had playing a video game x'D hilarious, and yet downright disturbing. The Mewo room was just disturbing haha.
Also when I approached the real Basil's room and it asked, "Do you want to save Basil?" I was screaming in my head, with all the urgency, "YESSS!!!!" like I was si freakin invested, and that's the magic of interactive media haha!!
Oh man, my first like, fight with Aubrey was intense too. I was so angry with her for bullying her friends, but I knew there had to be something going in behind the scenes too. What a satisfying story.
Okay I've been putting it off long enough, but I think my favorite individual line off the top of my head is, "Just because you've done something bad doesn't make you bad." I even felt inspired to explain that to one of my close friends when she was worrying about her own past.
A couple other scenes that made me very emotional were Stranger Basil leading the gang through the forest and repeating the flower comparisons he made at the beginning, and then switching Omori to Sunny aaaaaa
And also the music and visuals for the final Omori boss fight cut me omg, just listening to the song makes me feel emotional in this really intense way, makes me think exactly of the situation Sunny was in, desperately clawing and fighting his way to healing with so much determination.
I didn't like, "get" this game fully at first? Idk, maybe the fear battles didn't register with me as feeling the same as the way I experience panic attacks, but they certainly succeeded in freaking me out either way. And I loved putting all the pieces together after discovering what the core source of all Sunny's fear and despair was, how it connects to everything else, etc.
Wow I did NOT expect to ramble that much? But thank you for prompting me, and I hope it wasn't overwhelming. ^^;
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Re: Intressting Theories!
Date: 2023-08-13 10:54 pm (UTC)Awww, that's cute, Omori's friends just trying to help him feel emotions again. x3c
Ahh, let's see... I'm trying to remember if I watched or read anything about Omori before finishing the game. I think I did. I would watch let's plays, but not past whatever part I had left off. And I would sometimes look up specific compilations of moments that got me haha.
I don't remember where I posted about this part, but when I first opened the door and saw Hellmari, I flipped out like, "WHAT!!? I didn't know it was THAT kind of game!!" hahaha and then, to make my experience even more brilliant, I never went back into the bathroom until the night Kel and Hero stayed over. Actually yeah, lemme find where I wrote about that cause like, it hit me SUPER hard compared to if I had just seen it the same night I opened the door.
"The cherry on top is that I had already walked into Sunny's bedroom and talked to the brothers in their adorable pillow forte with lovely music playing and all that. And then I immediately went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror and saw this, for as long as I wanted to stare at it. And this... timing for me REALLY pierced me with Sunny's loneliness.
To have two people you trust sleeping in the same room as you, having created a cozy, warm, inviting, safe little space to spend with you. And to still be haunted by such horrific visions IN THE NEXT ROOM OVER is goddamn tragic. I know you can get other jumpscares in the mirror on this night as well, but for me, HellMari was always one of the scariest images in the game, at least for awhile until I got used to her. And this was only my second time even seeing her, the first being a split-second glimpse. So yeah. Absolutely terrifying and further indicative of how mentally isolated Sunny is."
Ah! I also got SLIGHTLY spoiled simply with a vague, colorful screenshot (a video thumbnail) and the idea of Basil's "deaths", and I was like, "Wh—?? Huh??"
Omg when the watermelon thing happened to me, it was one of the most amazing experiences I've had playing a video game x'D hilarious, and yet downright disturbing. The Mewo room was just disturbing haha.
Also when I approached the real Basil's room and it asked, "Do you want to save Basil?" I was screaming in my head, with all the urgency, "YESSS!!!!" like I was si freakin invested, and that's the magic of interactive media haha!!
Oh man, my first like, fight with Aubrey was intense too. I was so angry with her for bullying her friends, but I knew there had to be something going in behind the scenes too. What a satisfying story.
Okay I've been putting it off long enough, but I think my favorite individual line off the top of my head is, "Just because you've done something bad doesn't make you bad." I even felt inspired to explain that to one of my close friends when she was worrying about her own past.
A couple other scenes that made me very emotional were Stranger Basil leading the gang through the forest and repeating the flower comparisons he made at the beginning, and then switching Omori to Sunny aaaaaa
And also the music and visuals for the final Omori boss fight cut me omg, just listening to the song makes me feel emotional in this really intense way, makes me think exactly of the situation Sunny was in, desperately clawing and fighting his way to healing with so much determination.
I didn't like, "get" this game fully at first? Idk, maybe the fear battles didn't register with me as feeling the same as the way I experience panic attacks, but they certainly succeeded in freaking me out either way. And I loved putting all the pieces together after discovering what the core source of all Sunny's fear and despair was, how it connects to everything else, etc.
Wow I did NOT expect to ramble that much? But thank you for prompting me, and I hope it wasn't overwhelming. ^^;
I'll correct any of my typos later ahahaa