I don't think I've quite had a game break my brain like this one has in a very long time. I'm writing this having just finished the game, but coming out of it, I think this might be my GOTY for this year.

A beautiful, intricate, ambitious narrative, 1000xRESIST reminds one of Nier: Automata, Contact/Arrival, Evangelion, MGS, Land of the Lustrous, Annihilation - but I don't think any of those stories would be able to tell a story like this one.

It touches on why we protest, justice and violence, why we act on our emotions, how we choose to keep going, what keeps us going, the relation we have to our mothers, and how we grow up.

It is a story about what we keep with us and what we leave behind - from parent to child, from mother to daughter, from generation to generation, from one society to another, from one world to another - and the means by which we accomplish it.

I've cried many times playing this game. There will be moments that twist your gut, ones that will make you angry, ones that would fill you with dread. However, I don't think I'm going to come out of this one anything other than changed.

Without any spoilers - this game does things with a narrative I never expected from a game - please play this.

I don't think I've quite had a game break my brain like this one has in a very long time. I'm writing this having just finished the game, but coming out of it, I think this might be my GOTY for this year. A beautiful, intricate, ambitious narrative, 1000xRESIST reminds one of Nier: Automata, Contact/Arrival, Evangelion, MGS, Land of the Lustrous, Annihilation - but I don't think any of those stories would be able to tell a story like this one. It touches on why we protest, justice and violence, why we act on our emotions, how we choose to keep going, what keeps us going, the relation we have to our mothers, and how we grow up. It is a story about what we keep with us and what we leave behind - from parent to child, from mother to daughter, from generation to generation, from one society to another, from one world to another - and the means by which we accomplish it. I've cried many times playing this game. There will be moments that twist your gut, ones that will make you angry, ones that would fill you with dread. However, I don't think I'm going to come out of this one anything other than changed. Without any spoilers - this game does things with a narrative I never expected from a game - please play this.