For The Love Of God, This Had Better Not Be What It Looks Like.

[rionaleonhart]

I've just played The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, on the recommendation of two separate people who thought it seemed like my sort of thing.

It is, it turns out, exactly my sort of thing.

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley is a game about the fucked-up and murderous adventures of a pair of codependent, traumatised, isolated siblings, a concept so

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[futuresoon]

It's delightful that you've gotten into Andy and Leyley! I watched an LP a while back and I was like "oh this game was made for me specifically". Perhaps I should have realized that it was also made for you specifically. The central relationship is genuinely well-done, I think; it's not purely a matter of Ashley victimizing Andrew and definitely not "cute little sister worships her big brother" like basically every incest-adjacent anime, it's a deeply unpleasant slow burn trash fire. Have you looked at the other endings? There's basically two; you got the explicitly incestuous version of "Decay", but there's also the regular version, which is a little different, and "Burial", which is very different.

[rionaleonhart]

Such a hideous mess of a relationship in the most delightful way! As you say, it's very well done; I was definitely expecting more of an 'Ashley steamrolls all over Andrew' dynamic, and I was surprised and intrigued to find that Andrew very much has teeth of his own. I'm glad this game was made specifically for both of us!

I've looked up the broad strokes of the other endings; I need to actually sit down and watch them! But I'm definitely happy with the one I got.