LISA: The Painful

"Lisa: The Painful" is a title bestowed upon my arthritic co-worker. It's also the name of one of the finest RPGs I've played in my life. I'd rank it among Shin Megami Tensei IV and The World Ends With You as some of the best written video games out there. The only reason I wouldn't recommend this is if you're a minor or you're having a bad mental health day. This game's content warnings are basically everything under the sun, and is heavily focused on trauma after all. Damn good game! I really have to compliment the writing of Lisa: The Painful, as it walks a line so thin, you'd think it was made of fishing wire. It perfectly balances discussion of serious, mature topics, most notably various kinds of abuse, while featuring some of the best comedic timing imaginable. The comedy is made even more impressive by the fact it never undercuts the seriousness of the darker topics and crafts a story that lets you stew on that which needs to be given more attention and focus. This game's even offered up choices in conversations that left me hanging on the words for minutes at a time as I tried to figure out what the lesser of two evils would be for my (or someone else's) ensured suffering. The most impactful one manages to be one of only two times a game has made me felt as if all other sound and noise has been sucked into a vacuum as I read and re-read the words on the screen would be Mortis Ghost's OFF, when I read the exchange "He has your eyes." "They are full of fear." and I realized just what that game was about. The new content of Definitive Edition further compliments an already outstanding work and even makes some scenes, such as the final request Brad has for Buddy, hit harder than they used to. Queen Roger is awesome and the campfire scene between them and Brad allows Brad to show some more growth on his part. I was already moved by the fact you can deny the use of Joy to give him one thing that's his own: the ability to say he did right by going clean, even if it doesn't amount to much beyond that. That choice was still one he accomplished if you support it. No one else can take that away from him. I will not say much else about Definitive Edition so you, who's reading this, can get more out of it yourselves, but that new boss... MAN. One of the roughest gauntlets I've ever seen, yet one of the best designed superbosses in existence while offering a fantastic payoff. You even get to see Lisa herself in a more positive light here than you do in The Joyful. This game, man. You don't walk away from it the same way you started it. The subtitle of this game may be "The Painful", but I left it feeling grateful. I reiterate: Unless you're a minor or having a bad mental health day, this should be in your library. Don't let it collect dust in your backlog, either. Play it. Ten out of Ten. I wouldn't change a thing.

Not a big rpg guy but, this is up there with my favorite games so far.

Witzig aber schwer

not for the feint of heart

great game

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