I don’t know about emotionally overwhelming but we stopped watching the walking dead when they introduced Neegan because the shit he did was so fucking over the top brutal. I didn’t want to have that shit in my head
Show: Love, Death and Robots. It’s fantastic but some of the episodes just hit too hard. I’ll eventually get back to it, I just need some time
Game: Cyberpunk. I was looking something up and found out what happens to Evelyn. I kinda look like her a bit, and have also dealt with (much milder) issues in the same category. Too brutal
Movie: I actually watched it all the way, but the first time I watched American Beauty is just fucked me up for like, a week
Mr. Robot. I think I got a few seasons in and realised that watching it was negatively impacting my mental health. It’s just too depressing in parts, amazing show though. Its on hold for me to rewatch when I’ve got the emotional capacity for it.
Believe me, you won’t feel this way by the end. Best show in the universe. The dark aspects are necessary for the story, but the payout is amazing. I constantly want to rewatch it.
Finished it this morning, it’s quite the rollercoaster and it gets even darker in the last season before getting lighter… My girlfriend needed a couple of breaks to get through it so don’t feel bad, it’s not for everyone…
I’ve already watched it, but my husband and I are going through it again because he hasn’t seen it. We binge watch most shows, but Mr. Robot is HEAVY and it gets heavier and weirder until the end.
My advice while watching it is to detach from the characters. Accept that anyone can die at any moment, often horribly, but know that the ending is bitter-sweet and that the show is absolutely worth the watch
I watched it with my girlfriend and the part about the bones in the tin candy container at the start of the movie flew over her head. She was hopeful that the girl might survive, I realized she missed the bones because she got a smidge hopeful when they went to see the doctor.
FMA one is a real hearthchewer. I’m with you on that It came out of nowhere and it put a rail in my guts.
Gantz is an edgy circus tho. Reading it after this kid’s story, after all other things, I was somewhat prepared to this. I don’t blame you. It’s just when I was at this point, I felt like they’d do that or even worse.
Not that FMAB wasn’t awful, but Made in Abyss was a million times worse than FMAB. I couldn’t start to process the horror I just witnessed in MiA compared to just raging in FMAB.
Someone recommended the anime to me and I watched the first episode and couldn’t get to the second episode after finishing the first episode. I don’t remember exactly what it was, just that it was incredibly disturbing and I want to say it was SA related.
It’s a webfic set in a universe where people get superpowers by going through psychological trauma. It’s a fucked up world and the protagonist is a fucked up person as a result
You mean, the beginning of the first game with Sarah? Yeah, it was dark. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue that game after that, because usually, usually, that’s a thing directors leave for ending. It felt anticlimactic and wrong. And only a couple of chapters into the journey with Ellie I felt like I’m open to that game. If there wasn;t another person playing it for me, I could’ve just droped it.
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye. i can handle horror just fine, but Echoes of the Eye is on entirely another level of horror than most everything else. i was only able to complete about a third of it before i got too psyched out to continue
It is and both are masterpieces. I don’t like horror games and I bore through it. There is a setting to reduce frights but it does a good job using darkness and sound to freak you out. At least from the perspective of a person who doesn’t normally go for that kind of thing.
EOTE SpoilersI think what’s crazy about eote is that you figure things out that make everything visible, and once you understand how things work it really shouldn’t be scary anymore… but it is. As soon as you go back into the lantern’s bubble you’re just consumed by darkness and it feels just as scary as it was before - even though you know exactly what’s in the dark.
Eote is a masterpiece and I had to rly battle my fears to do it. Unlike the base game, you can play it in smaller pieces if playing it gets overwhelming
Grave of the Fireflies. I figured out what was in the tin and immediately turned it off, I was not willing to put myself through that and I’m still not. It makes me well up just thinking about it, and I haven’t even watched it. Brutal.