The false sun
I love just how the community is still being built (the english community) so there's not a lot of content abt it still. But as always I'm here to give my 10 cents of review and opinion. PLUS IM SUPER HAPPY THAT I GOT THE CAST ENDING WITHOUT TRYING, so i can sleep good tonight. I just don't have all the CG's for some reason, maybe they're paid? Idk. 10/10 to the VN. I got to into it I couldn't even focus on doing my shit before ending it.
Ok so on the more ''shallow'' stuff, this game is MADLY beautifull like, the characters are more in a realistic style so it makes the emersion even deeper. Plus, Silas expressions were phenomenal, the way he has that crazy expression just so to feign inocence GETS ME ALLLLWAYS AND I'LL KEEP FALLING FOR IT. The animal art is also sooo cute!! Besides, the soundtrack is so RELAXING!! I'm listening to it while writing this and I dont even like that much listening to stuff while I'm writing but THIS IS THE EXCEPTION. On the mini games part, it could just be slightly inconvinient when trying to replay the game to get more endings but they added to the story in such a nice way that I cant even complain. The worst mini game was the egg catching tho.
Oh and we can ALL agree that Silas had something to do with the Grandpa accident, right? Where he got food poisoning. WAY to convinient that Gramps ate a pear in the day he got food poisoning, too obvious perhaps but like I have no one to discuss this with.
Oh Silas what the FUCK will I do with you. That guy is just WRONG but at the same time he's so NOT WRONG and I can't decide myself. It's beyond obvious that the guy is not mentally healthy by any means and it does not excuse his actions but he's just so INCONSISTENT that it truly hurts my head, and not in a bad sense, it just shows that he's complex. He can be just so loving and at the same time so damn patronizing? I'm still searching for the word I want but I'll leave it at that. And there's also that fact that he is willing to hurt others, the Mc or even himself, there's just no predicting this man. The tiniest choice does matter in this game.
It's just that, he's so intense and pushing, like when the MC is afraid of swimming and doesn't want to, he gets upset at them and starts insisting that they go do something they don't want to. Like, ofc the MC has to get over it someday but that was NOT the way to go on about it, since everyone has their own time. He's a master manipulator and loves some guilt-tripping too, MC even says it something between the lines of ''Why do I feel guilty when I said nothing wrong?''.
But THEN he's also so caring, he would do anything for the MC but now that I'm rethinking abt this...him being caring is more selfish than anything. When MC comes back, he just SHOWERS them with affection without letting MC have anytime to let all those feelings sink in, obviously that's what he wants. He doesn't want the MC to think, they have to blindly trust him so that he can erase his mistakes and be with them. All that ''care'' that he forcelly gives to MC is just to make up all those years he's been away from them. Ok he really sounds more wicked now that I'm reading this.
AND AGAIN, but all these mistakes we're talking abt happened when he was a kid, a very disturbed kid that is, I'm still wondering if he has some specific type of mental illness or if he's just like that cuz killing animals as a kid is not what I'd label ''normal''. Oh, that and locking up, strangling and almost killing another kid. I know that MC was the only person/kid that he could trust and being abandoned by your favorite person while being yourseld and being labelled ''too much'' by them, hurt him deeply. What adds to that is when Kyle says that Silas got upset when people called him a hero for him ''saving'' the MC. It really shows that he's behaviour is really hard to predict and control.
My favorite ending was the ending 16? The one where Silas gets help, and he acknowledges that what he was doing was not right, I'm pretty sure he's aware of that but in this ending he comes to terms with it and admits it. The ending shows that he really regrets what he did and that he really loves MC and didn't want to hurt them, which made me happy. BUT THEN THERE'S THE OTHER 19 ENDINGS. Which makes me think, does he truly love MC? Is that just obsession? Is it both? Maybe neither? Ig that's kinda the appeal of this sort of games.
In the end, I think that Silas is too much of a dilemma to decide if I love him or not, but what I know is that i love his WRITING, that I could ever deny. Plus, it was 'nice' seeing a Vn where the MC and the love interest don't get a happy ending together. Oh, it was also nice that Kyle didnt take ''advantage'' of MC's feeling, they were clearly shaken up abt all that happened in the summer and I belive they didn't honestly like Kyle when they lean in to kiss him. Self aware king!
Reposting so I can look at it when I'm done with all 20 endings (I'm on 7 rn)
