u/theblueLepidopteran

Só pelo bem da arte mesmo.

Desde a infância, sempre fui uma criança muito medrosa. Eu me escondia das pessoas e tinha medo de conversar com estranhos e infelizmente essas coisas só pioraram com o crescimento.

Meu pai sempre foi uma pessoa muito difícil. Ele bebe bastante, xinga e cria situações extremamente estressantes. Fora que ele possui uma presença muito forte, no mal sentido. Não consigo olhar no rosto dele, por medo da cara feia que ele sempre me deu, desde quando eu mal sabia falar. Quando ele chega em casa, todo mundo já fica com aquela sensação de angústia. Ele interrompe a rotina das pessoas para que façam as coisas que ele quer, não permite que minha mãe use certas roupas, viaje ou vá a determinados lugares. Também é muito barulhento e gosta de deixar o rádio ligado o tempo todo. Nem os cachorros da casa têm paz: ele grita com eles e os atormenta constantemente. Não acho que eu tenha o direito de dizer que ele é uma pessoa horrível ou um monstro, pois ele tem seus lados positivos (pelo menos isso é o que a minha mãe diz).

Não estou escrevendo isso para que sintam pena de mim. Eu tenho fobia social, e isso torna muito difícil conseguir sair daqui e construir a minha própria vida. Muito provavelmente eu já não estaria mais morando nesta casa se não tivesse essa limitação. E quero deixar claro que não se trata de uma simples timidez. Vai muito além disso.

Apesar de tudo, eu ainda tenho esperança. Sonho com o dia em que vou poder ter um lar onde exista paz. Problemas fazem parte da vida, mas não é normal viver em uma casa onde você passa praticamente o tempo todo em estado de alerta, hiper vigilante e com medo. Todos aqui sofrem de alguma forma, e minha mãe também tem medo de ir embora ou de o confrontá-lo. Ela é uma pessoa doce e que gosta de ajudar as pessoas, por mais que tenha vindo de uma época mais difícil e limitativa, dificultando uma boa comunicação ou resolução de problemas relacionados a mente. Deixando claro que ele nunca nos agrediu fisicamente, apenas psicologicamente, não me entendam mal.

Enfim, escrever tudo isso já é um grande desafio para mim. Nem sei se vou ter coragem de apertar o botão de postar, embora queira muito. Se você está lendo isso, é porque consegui reunir coragem ou simplesmente agi por impulso.

Não estou procurando conselhos. Eu só precisava colocar no mundo algo que guardo dentro de mim há muitos anos. Se alguém quiser dizer alguma coisa de coração, tudo bem. Como o Reddit é anônimo, senti que este era um bom lugar para desabafar sem sentir que estou me expondo tanto.

Desejo que a semana de vocês seja ótima. Um abraço, pessoal. ❤️

É o que título diz.

It's already so hard to explain myself to people I know. It's a big decision that takes a lot of mental and even physical energy.

I don't want to have to explain my situation every time I disappear or turn down invitations.

It's not just a matter of "getting out of your shell," because if it were that simple, I'd be the fuck out of it already. It's not fun, it's not easy, it's not what I want, but it is what it is.

I'm trying my best.

Como se vocês estivessem contando cada ação que estão fazendo em tempo real pra si mesmo. Minha psicóloga me recomendou testar isso como uma possível ajuda para me manter no presente e diminuir críticas e auto julgamentos constantes. Então me questionei se existem pessoas que já fazem isso naturalmente ou se isso é comum.

I think The Quarry lacked seriousness, proper pacing, and character development. The death animations could be better too, but that's not really the point.

What I want to focus on is the characters, because they're carrying the conflict, the emotional weight, and ultimately the story itself. But they're far from the game's only issue.

The Quarry's trailer had a much darker and more serious tone. That was one of the main reasons I was so excited for the game before it came out. Unfortunately, what we got felt like the exact opposite.

As cliché and stereotypical as the characters in Until Dawn can be, they start revealing new layers once things begin falling apart. They grow. They react. They show sides of themselves that weren't visible at the start.

The Quarry's characters, meanwhile, barely seem affected by the horrors happening around them.

Jacob keeps talking and cracking dumb jokes even when his life is in danger, and by the end of the game he's basically back to worrying about Emma. Dylan somehow manages to keep the same sarcastic comedian personality even after losing an arm. He starts as a clown and ends as a clown with one less hand.

Kaitlyn never drops the snarky comments or the "I know better than everyone" attitude. Emma keeps making faces and acting like Emma even after being attacked by a horrifying monster. When she's about to turn into a werewolf while talking to Abi in the basement, the scene doesn't reveal anything new about her. It just reinforces exactly who we already knew she was. That's not necessarily a problem, as long as every character isn't doing the same thing.

Ryan somehow manages to keep his terrible sense of humor throughout the entire story. By the end, he's still the same painfully dull guy nobody would willingly spend a weekend with.

Then there's Laura and Max. Despite spending months trapped in what should be a terrifying situation, they often feel less like prisoners and more like teenagers grounded by their parents. Laura stays the brave, determined one even after all the impossible choices she's forced to make. Max remains... Max. A comic relief character who barely gets the chance to do anything meaningful.

Nick practically disappears once the story gets going. To his credit, at least he wasn't constantly throwing out jokes and catchphrases. Still, by the end of the game, he's basically a stranger.

Abi is the only character who consistently seems to understand how serious the situation is. Yet even she barely changes. I still can't get over the fact that she's the one character who should have become a werewolf. Watching her shy, quiet artist personality clash with a more savage and uncontrollable side could have been genuinely interesting. Instead, she stays the same shy girl with dyed hair who likes to draw.

The characters in Until Dawn have funny moments too, but when everything goes wrong, they change.

They're walking horror movie stereotypes, but as Larry Fessenden once said: "We take some stock characters and start giving them some shape."

We saw how Chris and Ashley reacted after witnessing Josh's apparent death. Chris responded to trauma with courage and selflessness, while Ashley revealed dishonesty and impulsiveness. Ashley's darker side is even more noticeable in the original game, where her Honesty stat can actually decrease when the player chooses compassionate dialogue options about the twins, subtly showing a gap between what she says and what she truly feels. Depending on the player's choices, she can also become remarkably cold, silently leaving Chris to die without lifting a finger to help him. Even though she was still in shock, her reaction revealed a certain cruelty beneath the surface in the original.

We saw Emily become both more unbearable and impressively resourceful under pressure. We saw Jessica completely lose her popular girl persona after her attack, she becomes a whole different girl. We saw how Matt's confidence as a strong athlete masked deep insecurities, whether in his jealousy toward Mike, his uncertainty around Emily, or the possibility of abandoning Jessica. (Both these don't show up much, but they still deliver a lot of character development.)

We saw Sam's bravery, but also her impulsiveness and tendency to isolate herself from the group. We saw that Mike wasn't just an arrogant popular kid. Underneath all of that, he genuinely cared about his friends.

And then there's Josh, who's complex from beginning to end.

These details are woven into the story in subtle ways, but they make all the difference.

Beyond the characters, The Quarry's overall tone never really worked for me. I could never figure out what the game wanted to be. A lot of the time it felt like the writers were pulling in completely different directions.

I think this also hurt the reveals and twists. None of them landed with the impact they could have had. The mystery surrounding Eliza and the rest of the story could have been handled much more subtly.

I didn't like that Eliza appears almost immediately. I didn't like that the game starts talking about the Hag of Hackett's Quarry right from the beginning. It gives away way too much, way too early.

While Until Dawn slowly builds its mystery and feeds information to the player in a natural way, The Quarry often feels like it's handing out answers before you've even had time to ask the questions.

Anyway, that's just my take. Everyone experiences these games differently.

What's your opinion on the characters from the game that almost became our Until Dawn 2?