[Basic Introduction]
In modern times, with a dim atmosphere, the male and female protagonists are about to face death.
Initially, I decided to play this game without hesitation because of its good reviews on ErogameScape and also because it was a free game.
This is the first time I finished a game so quickly (if this work can even be called a game). From discovering that this was a free game, downloading it, to finishing the entire storyline, it took less than half a day, which surprised me myself XD.
Tranquility, perhaps, could serve as my footnote for "narcissu." Throughout the two-hour game, the two protagonists showed almost no significant emotional fluctuations; they faced 'death' with calmness. Therefore, there were no heart-wrenching cries or gut-wrenching farewell speeches in the story, nor any miraculous reversals of fate. The player (or rather, the "reader") simply quietly watched Setsumi go through the final stage of her life.
What would it feel like when living is merely waiting for death? For 8 years, Setsumi repeatedly went in and out of hospitals, even twice entering the 7th floor, which symbolizes 'waiting for death.' As she herself said, for her, time had long stopped, and her heart had already closed. From the very beginning, she didn't hold any hope. Because when expectations cannot be fulfilled, that kind of despair becomes even more painful. Rather than enduring such pain, it's better to give up from the start.
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