Widdershins

I should... not have stayed up to watch the Game Grumps play through the video game Inside.

Admittedly, they had a lot to make fun of. A dark as the game goes in its last chapter, I have to ask.

 What is... wrong with culture these days? Admittedly, admittedly, in Inside as gross as it rather gets its still quite fun to look at and kind of silly. Just... I'd put this along with DokiDoki Murder... I mean, Literature Club. It's really questioning my own self-image really.

 Weird imagery for the sake of being weird is not storytelling. In fact, it feels hurtful and disrespectful of both your audience and your characters that your writing. Why do you want to pull the proverbial rug under your audience and make them feel like you've thrown them into the back of a shady truck too? Why would you want to tell a story where the main character is destroyed or living out a tortuous, poor excuse of a life? That... just feels like hurting others for your entertainment... like it's evil...

  It is, still quite, quite clever. I can't argue its worth. Just... doesn't any reader want to see others be happy anymore...?

...

 I miss the old days. The old, simple stories. Like pokemon's franchise where it was you making b-buddies with your animal friends... going on a bright, cheery adventure with the Zeldas... sure, you were often the prone-to-sucess bland protagonist archetype, but the fun was in the journey. Where the biggest hassle & moral quandary in stories was cooperating with your classmates and even drama between friends... like the Magic School Bus or... well, MLP.

  ...I guess Undertale is like that. Where you're free to take your own choices, and pay for them and learn & grow. Not the "Keep Dying until you Suceed" of platformer games or the being led by a leash most games these days seem to be.

  ...Sigh...

         ...I should have never stopped reading.

            ...Though if these "Supernatural Romance Novels" are anything to go by! WHEEE-HOOO! Joyous Madness!