You ought to play this video game
Long Live the Queen
That’s the title of the video game, visual novel to be more precise, but not heavy on the narrative text.
Just a friendly recommendation is all. This one is something different than the usual fare, is surprisingly compelling, fun, and challenging.
Basically, the main character is a young princess whose mother dies. She will inherit the throne of the kingdom in a year when she comes of age. Then you choose how to develop her attributes, skills, abilities, and talents each week while being confronted with all manner of situations, many of which result in her death. Poison, stabbing, bandits, drowning, monsters— to name a few. It was quite difficult to navigate her all the way to her coronation and I only did so with numerous speedy rewinds when a situation got her killed. I only managed to find one path through to the end, but there are lots of different ways it can go.
It’s worth playing, is what I am saying, especially if you need something light that you can pick up in five minutes and not feel like you are making a time commitment to see it through. You don’t need to be experienced with video games to get the most out of it either. If you are uneasy about getting into games and want to dabble a toe in the water from a safe distance, something like this is probably what you are looking for. I play lots of games as a hardcore gamer myself, and I liked it fine too. Its a nice change of pace from the overly serious big titles these days.
Those have become more like a cult of pagan idolatry from the ancient times, where the charlatan priests are trying to get you to worship their stone statue and buy their silver trinkets in exchange for not having them harass your private life. That is to say, if you aren’t playing the way they want. That’s the best way I think I can describe what they are doing. It’s a different kind of economic industry as a form of entertainment with unprecedented technology, but their actions and schemes amount to the same thing as the pagan idolatry people hated so much in Rome. People hated that evil pagan idolatry so much, that they decided they’d rather side with the Jews, of all people! Rather lean toward Jesus than grovel before the false idols of arrogant tyrants who don’t understand the spiritual forces they are exploiting. Do you people think we don’t realize that you are attempting to humiliate common people in order for you to pretend like their god? Common people who understand spiritual concepts, spiritual power, and practical religion far better than the privileged rich with all their worldly distractions. Kings and caesars like the ones in the USA government and ancient Rome are out of their element by trying to manipulate common people with false religion.
Anyway, you don’t have to worry about that with Long Live the Queen, but hopefully the people responsible for ruining the rest of the video game industry will be put in prison soon. Then video games can be restored to their rightful place as harmless entertainment. It’s not the game content that is harmful, it’s the game developers employing hackers to manipulate individual experiences, software that judges people for sins based on how they play, and the toxic propaganda most of the stories are now, so I guess that is content. In any case, you shouldn’t be letting your kids play video games until we can root out the corruption and ensure they are safe from what is essentially mind control.
They are using psychological manipulation of emotions while leveraging the context of an entirely irrelevant fiction story with no bearing on reality. Turning something as benevolent as a story into a weapon of political war designed to terrorize people in real life to direct their behavior toward some nefarious scheme of theirs when they have no such control over what people will choose to do when they lash out. That affects unaware individuals like a poison in their minds causing them to become self-destructive and volatile with the hatred they are consuming. You should read the book The Hate Factory for some insight on what institutional and systematic hatred does to people.
Anyway, most games these days are boring propaganda that causes depression, anger, and unhappiness, instead of entertainment designed to bring happiness and relieve stress. Truly monstrous really, and the most offensive crime to someone like me, but it is par for the course in the lawless and evil organized crime syndicate the USA has become. Hopefully they start having some mass shootings at government facilities as their own employees take matters into their own hands to stop what they are being used for.
Long Live the Queen. You ought to try it. Don’t bother with all the popular garbage that has saturated the market. Those are all basically assembly line, formulated trash with no creative talent or inspiration, and designed from a crappy formula mold too. Something poorly crafted and generic like that is a waste of all the hard work and talent that goes into making a game because of how it degrades everything they do instead matching it with the genuine artistic talent of a capable storyteller to weave it all together into something meaningful. Those games are not worth your time, unfortunately. Every now and then though, creators with limited resources manage to create something truly wonderful, and that’s the kind of game LLTQ is.
Final score: 9.7 out of 10.