Question Wednesday #2: Therapy Games

[moon_hotel]

Sorry I missed last week, it completely slipped my mind! I'm setting myself reminders to keep up on QWednesdays though. 

This week's icebreaker is kind of a your-mileage-may-vary question, but here goes: do you have any "therapy games?" That is, are there any games/genres that you like to curl up with when you're feeling down, or help you burn off stress? And, as always, what are you playing right now?

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[moon_hotel]

As for myself, I find that the entire genre of clunky PS1 "walk around, pick up items and maybe fight some dudes" games tend to make me feel pretty good when I'm down. A while back I ended up playing through Resident Evils 1, 2, Code Veronica and part of 3 during a bout of depression, and games like Echo Night, Silent Hill and The Note have filled that niche for me as well. I'm not entirely sure why--I think maybe it's because a lot of these games control very similarly so it doesn't take too long for me to get used to them, and because a lot of people don't like how slow-placed and clumsy they can be, it feels like a really personal thing for me. Like "this is mine! this is my special niche!"

I'm not playing anything at the moment (I just finished Echo Night 2 and I'm kinda done for now), but I think I might start playing Wine & Roses from that other rainbowgames post soon :^)