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What game feels like "home" to you no matter when you come back to it?
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touhou : ) probably 3, 8 and 10 especially.
or rain world. sometimes, pokemon black/white or pokemon pearl/diamond/platinum.
touhou and rain world are introject/kin-related, if i'm totally honest. i suppose rain world is obvious at this point so ill elaborate on the former more since i dont talk about it much; i picked those three touhou games in particular for a mix of reasons, i guess theyre nostalgic to me but they also capture the 'feeling' of gensokyo really well to me. the pixellated style of touhou 3 and it's whimsical plotline in particular reminds me of vivid dreams i would have when i was younger about another world, i never did figure out what those dreams were really about exactly but touhou 3 of all things for some reason makes me feel how they did; that odd sense of misplacement, fantasy, and wanting to go back there to where i belong and am loved. i'd argue the pc98 series just does this in general, im not sure why touhou 3 stands out in my mind for it.
touhou 8 and 10 are just kinda.. the vibes. i think theres a sense of wilderness to the gensokyo i remember, the aesthetic and the music of those two games takes me back to that a lot. that and the warmth of.. belonging? friendship? alongside again the sense of fantasticality and surrealist whimsy. it's really hard to explain. home. they remind me of home. and people i loved.
the pokemon ones are much simpler; pokemon pdp was my first generation as a kid, theres a ton of nostalgia to them and familiarity. unova in particular though i remember a lot more about and played a TON of as well. i remember id spend hours every night under the covers on my ds just.. watching the tv on it?? idk why but i found so much comfort in reading the dialogue over and over. it was one of my earliest experiences with noticing my object empathy too, i couldnt leave my character out in the rain for example, i always went indoors somewhere before i saved the game and closed it. if i had to say im 'from' a pokemon region, i'd call myself a sinnohan or unovan.
