I tried to play HwbM the first time on mobile while I was a private tutor in a big city. I am a nervous transit rider and constantly am peeking at what stop is next, so this was a bad environment for a very introspective, metaphysical game. Idk what character I even picked, this was yeeears ago.
I played it all the way through later, (maybe a year, this was after I left the city to go back home) as Luna-Terra and remember thinking ‘this all sounds really rad, but my brain does not feel like it can piece together anything precise.’ According to itch, that was 3 years ago. I was like ‘maybe this game just isn’t for me and that’s okay.’
A friend mentioned they wanted to play it for the first time, and I was excited because I wanted to actually talk to someone about it, maybe see if that would help me see what other folks like. So on wednesday, I sat down and did a playthru as Pluto, had already decided I was going to have my notebook open and jot down notes as I went and—wow? hey. fuck. This game finally clicked for me and clicked so hard. To the point that I have no idea what happened that it did not click for me before?? Maybe the LT narrative has a different approach to the lore, or maybe I was just not focusing back then. But whatever, shit happens.