Behind Every Great One showcases a women who is experiencing depression. Shrinking Pains showcases both male and female characters who suffer from an eating disorder and depression, allowing you to see the world from their point of view. Others have allowed you to take on a character with a mental illness to learn about the world through their eyes.īefore I Forget, a game currently being developed by 3 Fold Games, does a wonderful job of putting you in the mindset of someone suffering from dementia. Many, many games have taken the opportunity to add in characters with mental illness to add to the experience. Mental illnesses have long been looked at in such a negative light, despite the strides that games have made to help people understand these illnesses.
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These works of art – these different stories and experiences – they are each hand crafted full of love and passion. I tend to look at each and every creation I play with rose-colored glasses. I am not one to write about video games in a negative light. ” This is a serious illness that affects many people, and it doesn’t help to make this condition the subject of mockery, or worse, its sufferers people you should be afraid of. “More than 70 percent of people with DID have attempted suicide, and self-injurious behavior is common among this population. This illness is very scary to the individuals that suffer from it, and I feel that it is obvious that this is not something that should be used as a cheap scare tactic, or played up for laughs, in a comedy horror game. I walked away from the demo as I was unable to interact with Pam and feel okay with myself – with allowing this to be the character I tried to trick, with interacting with this character I was meant to fear. My reply was that Pam made me uncomfortable, and they said ‘Don’t worry, no one dies.’ One of the people running the booth came over and asked if I was stuck, and then suggested talking more to Pam. I attempted to not interact with this character, as she, and her presentation of a person with this mental illness, were quite upsetting. You can’t skip through any text that makes you uncomfortable.
The way Pam is shown as this scary child with this scary mental illness – that she looks like she could murder me – is upsetting. What makes me uncomfortable about 3 Minutes to Midnight is the way I am meant to be afraid of Pam, both in character and as the player – to be frightened of someone who is clearly suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. Despite her youth and slight size, she clearly scares the character you play as. Everything you ask her to do, she refuses, sometimes talking about other versions of herself and how they wouldn’t be happy with her if she did. Your character seems to be put off by Pam – as was I while playing the game. Some don’t remember large portions of their lives as their ‘host’ self wasn’t present. Many individuals hear multiple trains of thoughts going through their head, almost like comments on the world they are currently living with, while others switch in their core personality. There are several different forms of DID, each with their own trials to overcome. Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder of DID) is a very complex illness – there is not a lot of information out there about how people develop DID. Pam appears to have Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder).
These each chat to themselves as Pam viciously chops wood towards your character. Pam erratically switches between three vastly different personalities, each of which are visually and audibly different. She is shown chopping wood, harshly, in the corner of the screen. In 3 Minutes to Midnight, specifically in the demo I got to play at EGX 2018, you need to interact with a ‘troubled’ young child named Pam. However, that doesn’t change how troubling it is to interact with one of its characters: Pam. There are many good aspects to the game: the visual style is lovely, and the raccoon you interact with is full of character. 3 Minutes to Midnight is an adventure game themed around 80’s horror movies, offering cheesy humor, scares, and unfortunately, some of the genre’s upsetting representations of mental illness.
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