The Missing Hand of the Divine in Doki Doki Literature Club | Nerdy Sermon Rewind

I'm not sure there has ever been a game that has surprised me with constant subversions like Inscryption. 🤔 I'm currently having the same shock with the game Void Stranger right now. This is one of my favorite tropes and I look forward to seeing your responses here so I get some recommendations 😊

Maybe it depends how you slice the definition of a subversion, but I remember being really floored by Clannad: After Story. Honestly was not even a fan of the main highschool section relative to other works by Key, and it wasn't even the primary tragic event of After Story that floored me... but rather the way the fallout was used to mirror and reconcile a strained relationship of hurt among those who survived it, esp. protag's estranged family. Still not sure anything in anime has hit on that like AS did ime.

Truly one of the best visual novels of the 2010s, I found this game at age of 13 and blindly experienced every aspect of the game and without fail I cried many times playing this game both of sadness for the character losses and of happiness as I had just witnessed Dan Salvato's Magnum Opus before my eyes. You madea really good point about the game I hadn't considered before, The corruption that entails the power of feeling divine upon the person and the "human" said of Monikia with the lust and desire for the player made her act irrationally towards everything only caring about her goal and nothing else to get that goal. Through humbling our minds we lose selfish desires and find peace within ourselves to accept the fate either good or bad. Thank you for sharing this new outlook on the game that makes me just appreciate it more if anything <3

Monika wasn't just an obsessive psychopath. She was the best obsessive psychopath. Also, my favorite piece of subversive media is the first Shrek movie. Call me a hipster, I don't care.