Omori's 2nd Anniversary...

I don't usually get all sentimental here, like at all, but I think in my opinion this game deserves it. This game means a lot to me, moreso then I can properly put it into to words. I was kind of new to the internet when I first saw the first trailer back in 2016 while I was still figuring out the internet as a kid, I remember watching it on my bed for the first time, being bombarded with all these colors and weird animation that broke my piss baby brain into pieces. I remember being geninuely kinda freaked out over bo en's my tim. Needless to say before I was even aware that this was even going to a real game I was invested into it.

2020, pandemic happens. Looking back on it now at the time I never fully understood as to why I was the way I was feeling, which caused alot of confusion which invevitably made me not oly stressed about posting/making art and fan art, but to downright be addicted to the rush that it gave me. It's Decemeber of 2020 and one of my friends sends a link to the 2020 trailer for this game again, and I was a little confused as to why it looked so familiar to me. Then, I looked throughe channel and realized that the game that I was so weirdly invested by its trailer back in 2014 was just back out of nowhere. At the time, I didn't really intend to buy the game; mostly because I never really expected to get games untill I was an adult and would alwayts default into watching letsplays back then if the games weren't free, or i'd just pirate them. But one of my old friends back then had gifted me it, and through that I was able to experience it for the first time.

I've never had a game nor any media make me cry before. Even when it came to watching and playing games that had emotional bagage to them in mainstream titles, they never got to me. Maybe it was because I was too young to understand them, or maybe I just have a better appreciation for smaller details now? I don't think I'll really know for sure. That changed when I first saw the ending to this game, 30 hours in. I've never actually sobbed so hard nor cared so much about characters from anything fiction before. It might be because really it came out at one of the most vulnerable times of my life, but alot of the final boss hit close to home, and the music accompanying it was so haunting and beautiful at the same time that it broke a barrier somewhere .

You can probably tell this game's been at the back of mind for the last like year considering how much fan art I've made about this game at this point, that's self explanatory. I'm not gonna say this game "cured my depression" or anything, it just made me really aware about a lot of the toxic things I was making myself do through its themes in the story and was one of the first things to really make me want to truly better myself as a person, and try to be more open with myself and others. I'd probably still be a lot more self conscious, and troubled if this game didn't cone at the time it did. It really helped me figure things out and made me want to improve my artstyle and get into animation so that maybe I could make something worthwhile too!

This'll probably be the last piece I make of this game, ever. One of the main reasons I like/ do fan art pieces so much is that I want to find a way to show my love for something through that, and for a while I always felt I wasn't good enough to properly show it. Espeically with this game. But I think that this is the one. Looking back at the first piece of art I did for this back in 2021, I've never really been more proud of the evolution I had with making art, and I want to continue with that through the next few years. And I'm really happy that I got to finish this piece in time!!

Happy Birthday Omori!