Perhaps it was because they had seen what she looked like, or perhaps it was an outpouring of emotion after finishing the game.
After her, the players also sincerely wrote their own reviews.
[Grandma said, "Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between stubbornness and determination, isn't it?"]
[Why climb a mountain? Because it's there. Madeline is climbing a mountain, but aren't we doing the same? Dying again and again, exchanging time for progress. The moment we reach the summit, both we and the protagonist will feel that everything we gave along the way was worth it.]
[Madeline has not reviewed for a long time. The system has issued a default positive review.]
[A-side: story begins. B-side: game begins. Chron-side: torment begins.]
[A simple platformer with no platforms.]
[And so, perhaps the meaning of life really is just this: hollow and lonely. Yet somehow, all of it is meaning in itself.]
[Let this be the end. I, too, am going to climb the Celeste Mountain of my own life.]
Everyone had originally thought Ethan Vale only made torturous games, but this time, even as he tormented them, he was healing their hearts.
"Old Thief, that was insane! Absolutely insane!" Evan roared into the phone. The game's sales kept climbing, and one game after another continuously drove up console sales.
"Old Thief, tell me honestly, do you like that girl?" Evan seemed to think of something. "I know several excellent doctors. I asked around for you, and they all said her condition can be treated. It'll just take a while."
"I just didn't want to see a good friend so upset." Ethan Vale shook his head. "I'll leave the doctors to you. I'll arrange for her to go receive treatment."
After learning in his previous life that the young girl