Saving You From Yourself

Short and simple. An interesting 5 minutes. Understand the mixed reviews but don't agree-- the therapist is intentionally awful. I just wish it chose either the therapist or arle to be the main pov and obscured the actions of the other party Edit: just watched the video. Dear god does this weigh on my soul. Extremely good piece of art.

I was really split on what to give this for a review. I have been playing loads of quick easy visual novel games for their achievements and skipping the story where possible. But I cannot help but see how harmful the views in this story were. I can only guess this was written by somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about because the views are hurtful and damaging. I am not a trans person so I cannot speak to the impact of that but I am a therapist and I can say for certain this is not a realistic way of working. They could have made a crap game and not done any harm but they chose to do both,

This game is probably going to stick with me for a while. It's a good game that shows what happens when you're pitted against a therapist that doesn't have their priorities right. The misaligned thought of "this is for your own good" when it just isn't. And to make you feel the worst of it, you're placed in the shoes of that therapist, with glimpses to how your actions have deeply affected your patient. Some of the negative reviews don't seem to grasp the game. It's very clear, at least to me, that the person you're playing as is not meant to have someone's best interests at heart. And the resulting effect on the patient is also not meant to be reflective of how they're meant to be, or rather what the system led them to think. This game is not transphobic, but it does force you to feel that transphobia by being the bigot and feeling the harm being as such causes.

Transphobia in game form. Not even close to the actual experience I had starting my transition as a woman. I'm sure it's not so easy for everyone, but seriously, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Two of three endings made me extremely uncomfortable.

made me cry

♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, oversimplifies something way more complex, and for what the game proposes, the dialogues and choices should be much more extensive—very little dialogue. It's a completely one-sided, biased story because the therapist was intentionally bad or 100% permissive (Denise also gives crappy advice). Why couldn't it be a game where the process of truly getting to know the other person and giving or withholding professional approval became complex? poor concept for something that tries to be serious, irresponsible.

made me cry