That none of those fantastic things came to being. But it all comes crashing down at the end, only for you to seethe in rage, and when calmer, to be disappointed at how it all came to be. It intrigues you at the beginning, then takes you on a journey full of stunning sights and flights of fancy. We wouldn’t like them to remind us of how deeply flawed our worlds are, nor would we like to know even more about the issues that trouble us.īut maybe sometimes, a game comes along that does precisely those things. By definition, we wouldn’t like our games to hit too close to reality. We play video games as an act of escape from a widespread drudgery that surrounds us to no end. Life is a journey of nightmares and anticlimaxes, but thankfully interspersed with some moments of genuine happiness. Instead, life is mostly made up of a few joys, some more heartbreaks, and a whole lot of sniffles. ![]() ![]() Storybook happy endings in life happen rarely. In those differences lie who we are, and although we take separate paths and experience disparate consequences for our actions, life invariably finds a way to screw us over anyway. We try to understand what we want, and we behave differently in trying to get to the place we want to go to. But how we would like our lives to be and how our lives actually are, are never the same. In a world where everyone is in a conscious or subconscious flux about how they interpret happiness, we would all like to be happy in some way.
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