Recently played "Everything is going to be fine", a self-described "nihilistic horror comedy zine-game about life". It's quite hard to describe just why I like it so much. When it comes to art, especially in the modern world and in the context of fandom, we often pick it apart, project onto it, use it to make ourselves seem more important than we are until it's not really the 'art' that matters but rather how we can use it was we see fit. Appreciation turns more into flexing knowledge, a useless line of 'fun facts', one after the other. Analysis turns into clinical examination.
Eventually, the conversation becomes less about the art itself and more outside of it, if that makes sense. This isn't to say that we shouldn't interpret things based on our personal experiences (I think that's perhaps one of the most important ways to interact with art such as this), but rather we shouldn't view art as a mere springboard or even an obstacle to our own ideas and desires (for example we shouldn't discredit a piece just because it has homoerotic elements dude I had someone who decided not to read the summer hikaru died just because it had homoerotic elements like ok man). We should consider it on it's own merits. Everything is Going to be OK is something I wish not to merely examine. It is an experience I wish to share.
https://alienmelon.itch.io/everything-is-going-to-be-ok Do not discredit it just because it has a 'weird' or atypical presentation. Try to engage with it genuinely, please. I've been a casual fan of surrealism enough to know that a lot of people just cannot for the life of them sincerely engage with any media with atypical presentation. Drives me up the wall.
