5/5 ★ – fishboy302's review of OMORI.

Genuinely, I don’t think anything will EVER come close to my initial playthrough of this game. There’s still a divot from early 2021 carved into my gullet from where my heart dropped during the finale. The rollercoaster of emotions can never be replicated—probably ever again. My chest was tight with each story beat, and my breath was taken as I inched toward the stories ending. I literally went into this as BLIND as possible after returning Hylics 2 to Steam and Googling “games like Mother 3.” This game had barely any coverage. No one I knew had played it. I thought I’d discovered some nobody’s “Earthbound Inspired Depression RPG”. It was all on a whim. Beautiful, untainted, ignorant bliss. I could not have asked for a better moment to start what would become an obsession that would last years. All of this was done on a neon-red Predator gaming laptop as I lay tucked in bed alone, finishing the game as the sun rose at 5AM. Like the big baby I was—and still am—I actually, truthfully, cried for an hour during the finale. And then another two hours just staring at the title screen. I curse that day my tears were washed off my bed sheets. Good times. P.S. I want to apologize all the people I basically had and gunpoint to play this game, but at the same time you should be thanking me lowkey.