Shared Link | Tuesday, May 22, 2018

How Undertale Helped Me Grieve

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Fair warning, this post is going to be pretty heavy. Additionally, it contains spoilers for Undertale.

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There’s something you can do in Undertale that never appealed to me, but this highly-personal essay finally makes sense of it as a powerful example of how games can help us process difficult emotions. (Spoilers for Undertale. Content warning for loss of a loved one.)

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