This review and game comes with a content warning for thematic reasons: anxiety, depression, suicide, and infanticide, some of the above involving minors.
Video games can often make us think about the world around us, or show us new perspectives or experiences beyond our own. But so rarely does a game turn that response inwards, and make the player look at themselves beyond things like shallow moral decisions. When Spike Chunsoft?s CRYSTAR came across my desk, the last thing I expected was to be confronting my own issues while slashing away at anime demons. Yet, here we are. CRYSTAR is often a simple, to the point action RPG that follows familiar story beats. But the story it tells is framed with honest and respectful depictions of depression and anxiety that not only hit close to home, but also add a layer of existential depth to the usual anime power fantasy.
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