Hello! Eurogamer’s week of features celebrating the intersection of LGBTQ+ culture and gaming continues today with a return to Dreamfeel’s acclaimed visual novel If Found... and a closer look at its themes of queer self-erasure
Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride with another week of features celebrating the intersection of LGBTQIA+ culture and gaming. Today, Ozzy Smith revisits developer Dreamfeel's acclaimed visual novel If Found..., taking a closer look at its themes of queer self-erasure.
That feeling's best thought of as the tension between who people expect us to be and who we really are... or who we're trying to become. Imagined futures are projected onto our bodies like film reels, blurring the skin that lies beneath. That tension feels a lot like shame.
In private, Kasio imagines a different life for herself and deals with her difference in a variety of ways, namely with how she's illustrated. You see, the screen you're looking at in the game is Kasio's journal, meaning most things on display come directly from her imagination, her memories, and her perceptions. And in her journal, Kasio's self-illustrations are blurred and vague.
Worry not! Things pick up for Kasio before the credits roll. Most of the game plays out via Kasio's journal entries, but occasional scenes dip into a science fiction subplot following an astronaut called Cassiopeia who's trying to stop a universe-ending black hole. It's not immediately clear if these scenes take place in Kasio's imagination, recreating herself as a headstrong cosmic hero, compared to the shy, self-conscious girl she really is throughout the story.
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