心塞男孩 Sadboy

心塞男孩 Sadboy is a hybrid interactive novel/HTML/multimedia tier collection of minigames/point and clicking... it's very primitive and the point of this minimum effort product is to push the narrative that it's wrapped around. It's a sort of coming of age story about a boy who faces depression due to the changes that come with the end of the school education part of childhood and the steps into adulthood that follow. There's no English translation for the game, but that's ok. It turns out, the language of bad games is universal. Trying to address social issues through the medium of video games is misguided and can be harmful. While it's plausible to suggest the intention was noble, this can do more harm than good. Game developers are not professionals in areas of mental health and social problems, and when they use video games to pretend they are, this can cause far more harm than good. It's my opinion that it's improper to use video games to push political or social agendas. Apart from the harm such hamfisted attempts at addressing social problems can cause, this offers zero benefit to PC gamers. People suffering from health issues or other social problems should seek out …

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