4/18/2023 0 Comments No longer home review![]() Not once does the game offer something fresh or wholly unique to let you take your place in its story. Wander through an intimate flat, and examine the everyday belongings of Bo and Ao. Their friends are eclectic hipsters in the same space, talking about similar problems over a BBQ. No Longer Home is a semi-auto-biographical point and click game, set in a magical realist world. Bo’s dialog is rife with his anguish over things like… changing apartments and trying to find a job. It’s hard to connect with the two leads when so much of their feelings come across as dire self-importance in the self-absorbed vacuum of living your twenties. Looking back at my own stories, like Bo and Ao’s, I realize now that while I thought it was super important and so stressful, it ultimately wasn’t. No Longer Home succeeds because it is so specific, honest, and unflinching in the ways it confronts what being at a crossroads can do to us emotionally and psychologically. Self-Absorbed Twenty-somethings? Who’d Have Guessed? I remember, too, when I went back to school to get a better job. ![]() I remember being a drifter at my parent’s house, working a retail gig, and partying. ![]() I can personally identify this time of my life, as I decided not to go to university right away while all my friends were chasing degrees without a clear answer on what job the degree would give them. ![]()
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