My mom used to love to play these kind of game when I was a little boy, but she's too scared to play alone so she drags me to play with her. Just me and her, cuddling in blanket, late at night after work, playing horror games. (Father was in a different town because his work needs him there) I still remember many tiny details of it. I play games too, just not these type, but my experience in other games, as well as my natural advantage as an over energetic teenage boy, lets me understand the mechanics and the game-play way better and faster than her, even tho I don't really like them. She on the other hand, not an IT person, barely understand how Office works to do her work on it, so I often tip her, teach her, tell her where to go and what to do next. She always listen carefully, and patiently, even after I mock her as "old and dumb" (you know how teenagers talk to their parents)
I never quite get why she play these games back in the day, like I said, she don't quite familiar with all the PC nonsense. But now I understand, I was a teenager, I just get to know the world yet I eager to prove I'm "mature", "strong", "doesn't" need a woman to look after every bit of my life, so I choose to stay away from her. I start talk to her less, I stopped say I when she's in the living room and I had to go through there to Kitchen to grab snack.
She must have felt lonely, lost because her lovely son suddenly start avoiding her, so she think, and think, and come up with an idea. Playing games, do what kids do, get close to them by playing the games so you have something to talk about, and horror story is like a perfect excuse to have your loved ones stay beside you, that's why she always smiles even if I mocked her, words don't matter, what matter is that my lovely son is right beside me now.
And just like that, after few weeks of watching her play, I finally agreed to play my first, and also the only point-click horror game together. Again, I don't like these type of games, I won't play them, but this game holds some special meaning to me, so I'll buy it, have it in my library so I can look at it and relive me of the good days back when I was a kid, the good times I had with my mom. But what do I know maybe she's just really into point-click horror games.
