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Just to howl: Why I like it when games make me sad

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I started Rime a few years ago assumed that I would expect me a nice, but rather forgotten ICO clone.

Well, the inspiration, I already had right. But when I completely dissolved after the credits that, emotionally completely dissolved, my girlfriend who had watched, as well, I stroked the forgotten quickly from my list. We hardly talked about this evening, both went to bed, immersed in our own thoughts.

I loved what I had just experienced. And I knew that I never would never touch this game.

I do not know if there were many other people so, at least I talked to anyone else, who sees RIME as the perhaps the saddle of all times. In any case, it has completely ignited.

Table of contents

  1. 1niger is more
  2. 2All have ever been there?
  3. 3tie many types of mourning
  4. 4 projection surface
  5. 5playable noticeably better
  6. 6Whas take it out

In general, however, it usually succeeds much stronger to pack me emotionally than about films. Yes, even there I feel with the figures, think of myself. But if I had the controller in hands and with my heroines with fever, sometimes witnessed many hours, as it came to the depressing final, then this is once again a very different level of immersion.

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And: this is not pending from the production costs, on the contrary. Red Dead Redemption, Last of US 1 and 2, even an atmospheric mind like light blood: Great things, no question.

Shuttled presentation, little or no voice output, a reduced graphic style, but with me, however, much more the wearing glands are activated than the big staged dramas.

Less is more

Easy to howl: Why I like it, if games make me sad (3) Source: PC Games at least that s probably not alone, because it is probably no coincidence that especially the indie market the game with the grief so Masterfully dominated: Thomas What Alone, Limbo, to the Moon, Celeste, The Last Day of June, What Remains of Edith Finch, This was of Mine, to meet only a very, very small selection.

Of course this is also a prejudice, because of course great productions can also create great, emotional moments, but the nuances, yes, that succeeded the small teams often better.

Everything has been there?

Just to howl: Why I like it, when games make me sad (8) Source: Games Currently it is no secret that a huge budget in the back of creativity is not always conducive, and the presentation of mourning is true to. It does not always have to be death, not always a clear trigger can be named; Grief, depression, that works on so many levels.

I always find it strange if people complain that too many (indie-) games deal with the subject of depression. Well, at a time in which mental problems are a worse pandemic than the visible pandemic, which continues to fly over us, this confrontation should not really surprise with the topic. Art has always lived to give a form of fears and problems of people, sometimes less obvious as the monster film boom after the first nuclear weapon tests, sometimes something clearer.

The many types of mourning

Just to howl: Why I like it, if games make me sad (12) Source: PC Games Secondly: Hardly a topic allows so many different machining options such as grief, as many facets that you can put in the center. To The Moon acts (among other things) of transience, as well as Last Day of June, The Last of Us and What Remains of Edith Finch - a theme, and hardly anyone would probably make the playing all too many parallel.

And with the best of them, this interpretation is only a part aspect because they just work on so many emotional levels.

Projection surface

Just to howl: Why I like it, if games make me sad (2) Source: Tequila Works As mentioned, this complexion works - at least for me - mostly better, the less funds to be used to portray them, maybe just because of this so much Interpretation clearance is allowed. Without dialogues, with a few clear instructions, as I should feel now, I find my own grief, which I can also match much easier with my own emotional world: I project what is busy, my own problems and reasons for sadness to the Events in the game, and then it is suddenly easier to identify with a colorful square as in Thomas what alone to identify with a fully elaborated human figure where I can count the pores on the skin.

playable noticeably better

Just to howl: Why I like it, if games make me sad (1) Source: Sony therefore, because of this tremendous projection marquee, paired with the interactivity that makes me travel myself to the emotional climax, this works in games as I said better than at Film. The most likely is to compare with a novel, where the creatured world goes far beyond the written word in my head and I (hopefully) participated similarly emotional journey.

But why do I want that at all? Why do I want to be sad?

What you take it out

Well, first of all, nobody can accuse humans to be an all-too-rational being, and as they give themselves the thrill of a horror movie, stops also want to be activated from time to time.

And for me it is now that the best, the most memorable stories that are not only exciting, great presented, or whatever found, but those who touched one; which have given something. The best games of this kind help to understand himself better, with the grief that employs a self, better deal; A modern shape of the Catharsis, if you like.

When I lost one of me anyway to me, my thoughts moved to Rime again, this story with the end that broke me so. Maybe I interpret too much there, maybe I was generally looking for an anchor in this situation where I can hold on; But at least it felt subjective for me so as if this sadness I felt at the time would teach that I had drawn from my very own grief; thereby better dealing with it.

Not the most worthles that you can pull from a video game.

About the author

Just to howl: Why I like it, when games make me sad (10) Source: Lukas Schmid Lukas Schmid has been working since 2010 in different features at Computec Media and thus with PC Games, first as a trainee, then as a free employee, then as a volunteer , Editor and now as a senior editor for pcgames.de, Videogameszone.de, games make and Gamezone.de. He loves action, adventure, action adventures, shooter, Jump & Runs, horror and roleplaying, with strategy titles, most rogue likes and military simulations can be hunted. Every Saturday at about 09:00 clock he shares you in his column, which annoys him or happy again. Hass comments and love letters like to the comments under the Column, [Email Protected] or on Twitter on @schmid luki.

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