Comfort in Video Games.


It’s 2022 and I still keep coming back to play this; need for speed most wanted.

This is one of the games that I played the most as a kid. Sometime when I have a tough day I come back to this game. But is not even about winning a race or beating a certain enemy in a different gamed. It’s about racing or running around in that world. It’s about running around in a place that you feels like home.  That’s why I still keep coming back to these worlds. May be Elden Rings lands between will be my next comfort place.(insert getting killed montage here.)That nostalgic feeling is all you need sometimes to pick you up.


Life always throw curveballs at you but the world of a video games that you explored to farthest corner feels so welcoming  even though the world is hostile there is a feeling of comfort. Running around in old yharnam isn’t scary after a while it’s like going on a walk in the park. You just there to relax. I have spend so much time just walking around in old yharnam or walking around the hollownest just listing to the sound track these world are hostile but for me it feels like a warm welcome.


But it’s not just the world right! Sometimes listening to a soundtrack is also feels the same. That’s why dying on a level hundred sometimes on Celeste never feels tiring. That’s why fighting night mare king or mantis lords in hollow knight is so fun you dying doesn’t feel makes you want to quite you just want to keep going  and even after beating them I still go back to fight them in the pantheons cause it’s comfortable and relaxing compare to rough days. This is the escapism I fell in love with.

When life just keep getting hard sometimes you just need to take small break touch some grass and may be hug a maiden.

Video games though me that sometimes you just have to keep trying again and again to overcome challenges that thrown at you and some times be really smart when taking on these challenges. Or just to take a break, relax  and not to rush into the next thing. Just enjoying the moment.

For me personally games that had great impact on me were Hollow knight  and Gris. I was certainly was on a low point. Gris felt like it was guiding me through a journey that I had to go on to overcome my depression. For some reason even though the game was simpler at the end I was tearing up. Isn’t it wonderful when a game makes you reflect on yourself and the actions you have taken. The way she was trying to overcome the different stages of grief immensely helped me get through some rough times. Same with hollow knight this wonderful world. I started playing gris and Hollow knight roughly around the same time and I was down so bad but these two games picked me up and encouraged me to do better in a way I never even knew was possible. 


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