This game made me feel so seen (teenage trauma)
I just finished DE for the first time. Played all of the previous games, including the first LiS back in like 2016 when I was in high school myself. I'm now a grad student as well and my time in high school was quite traumatic in many ways (though not the same as Max's of course). But I feel like this game just did such a good job at conveying this feeling of moving on and growing after trauma but it still sometimes coming back to haunt you in inconvenient moments. I have never seen this conveyed so closely to how I experience it in any type of media. Also the overthinking and that sentence where Safi says something like "it must be so tiring to be so stuck in your own head all the time" or something like that.
Does anyone else feel similarly?
Also I'm a Bay ending person for life (glad to see some more on this sub, I always knew they must exist based on the stats but comments to LiS videos etc are always much more Bae ending ppl) but even if you chose Bae I don't see it as unrealistic at all that they would have broken up. Generally speaking how many people are still dating their high school sweetheart in their late 20s? Sure it happens but most people have at least one breakup in the meantime. And all that trauma involved I also feel like makes it more rather than less likely.
So anyway, I overall really enjoyed it, I understand some of the criticism around the side characters etc but I think they did an amazing job in evolving Max's character into an adult.
[side note I haven't played Reunion and probably won't as I don't have a compatible console/pc, so all of this only refers to DE]