Money for Girls: Amortized

The writing in Money for Girls: Amortized is revolting in a way that feels so good. It is utterly disgusting. Absolutely putrid. I love it. There is something deeply wrong with me. If there is something deeply wrong with you and you enjoy visual novels I highly suggest it.

Mondo Walastik!!!!! This game is actually one of the best things I have ever laid my grimy little rat mitts on. PLEASE if you are mentally ill play this game, its for you. I have never obsessed over a game as much as I have this one.

STUNNING game. The storytelling is truly hooking and the art is BEAUTIFUL!

Waiting for someone to write a guide before a second playthrough, because I love Cancer (the sad, fragile thing she is) and don’t wish to subject her to more bad ends than necessary experimenting in search of a good end… but that (in and of itself) combined with the reality “I’m recommending this after one 80 minute playthrough, because if it was *just that* it’d still be worth the price” is testament to how much this resonated with me. I aspire to be the best ally I can, but like this is a review from a painfully straight CIS white boy, so do with that what you will… parts of it were rather bracing from character creation (I know there’s a “we’re taking it back”movement, but wasn’t ready for that word out of the gate as someone who absolutely couldn’t say it). But in the same way this reality leaves me uncomfortable saying how resonant/affecting/insightful/sensitive it would be from the standpoint of someone with more lived experience in the topics, I can definitely attest to the fact it felt like a very powerful mix of both direct textual portrayal of Yuri coming of age alongside surreal levels of supernatural fantasy allegory. Someone concerned and quietly hiding the reality their body is slowly morphing into an alien plastic facade as their inner being collapses into a black hole strikes me as something a lot of 20 somethings questioning their sexuality probably COULD relate to, so it’s a visceral enough analogy that it was that much easier for me to relate to. A lot of good romance and horror run with a protagonist you could easily project yourself upon in scenarios you can easily imagine. And that’s perfectly adequate, but the simple approach… it is an easy thing to care about a protagonist just like you, and thus the simplest way to write one. Cancer’s situation is strange enough none have ever gone through her EXACT problems, but they’re also stark and confrontational enough we’re forced to imagine somewhat vividly “but what if you were?” And while enormous, her awkwardness and insecurity feel deeply relatable even if I never dealt with some of her foibles personally. The game is great in the sense it makes you care even if a lot of this is deeply foreign. I can only imagine what it’s like to someone who can relate to it more directly, but as someone who can’t, still very enriching, is the point I’m making… so worth a try just on the chance it impacts you as deeply as it did me

it is unbelievable how obsessed i am with the art, sound, music, and every other aesthetic design element of this game

the boyborn option is amazing! Must play for the dolls

haunting, visceral, terrifying. i feel seen. as a former failure of a girl, and a certified even worse failure at whatever i am now, this hits somewhere very close to home. close to the nancy drew and horsegirl games i played as a kid. close to the birds that die of building impacts on my college campus. close to the flies buzzing around a sodium light.