Being kept alive by a former favorite work
I'll write an article about it eventually.
I just can't keep it to myself.
For some reason, I've been getting really passionate about a work whose mobile game app service ended 6 years ago (!?).
It's probably just one of those occasional re-ignited obsessions. But this one is actually quite troublesome.
I re-downloaded the offline version and read through the story a bit, and it was painful the whole time...
I was able to enjoy it fully, going full otaku, thinking, 'I'm dying... I'm dying lol'.
A sequel was released about two years later, but a lot of things had changed, and honestly, I couldn't get into it as much as the first one... (I do think it's truly wonderful that it's being ported to the Switch, though).
But even though it's a re-ignited interest, it feels very fresh.
More than just nostalgia, I'm relieved that I can still enjoy it even now.
There are no new developments, but I can still easily fill in the gaps in my head... and there are little things I had forgotten or hadn't noticed, so the process of rediscovering them is fun too.
If anything, I feel like I can see things I couldn't view objectively back then, and I've become able to enjoy the whole thing.
Well, they did release the rest of the story on the very day they announced the service would end.
The official team had no mercy.
I clocked out at 7 PM, went home, and played it. The story was as good as ever, but I was so lonely that I cried until 11 PM.
After that, I took a shower and lay down, but there was no way I could sleep. I ended up crying again while lying in bed from 3 AM to 4 AM, and I almost suffocated from my own snot.
I thought, 'I can't die from a stuffy nose,' so I forced myself to stop crying and went to sleep. Maybe that was a bad idea, because for the next three days, I cried on my way home after work (I could only do that because it was dark).
That's how much I loved it.
I'm in a very good mood right now, so I think I'll keep this passion going and enjoy my fandom for a while.
Man, this is fun!!