it also leaves you more bereft and lost when life gets complicated; which it will sooner or later. Difficult art that asks difficult things of you has the potential to transform your point of view in a way that escapist art fundamentally avoids.
Mina the Hollower is still a great game btw. It's really tight and cute, the bosses and characters are all really well made and fit with the world beautifully. It's a fully realised space and the ways in which you can tackle problems is very open-ended!
