You consume a review: raw notes and chaos in the video game model

There is a lot of mathematics in the culture of the diet. They are all numbers – calories, calories burning – and a continuous outcome in a person’s head. In some respects, turbulent eating can be considered a game of this type of strategy, and this is exactly the reason why Jenny Jiao Hisia and AP Thomson You consume me It works well. A biography game that separates the teenage years in HSIA is a dark peek and honest view of the desire to form a person’s life and body through food.

Food You consume me Tomatoes, turnip, and pasta provided as Treis Blocs-“bites” are set, a calorie position. Jenny’s (the character, not the developer, who will refer to the use of its last name, HSIA) to organize these blocs on a plate, choose the pieces carefully, and arrange them to keep them full but staying under the limit of its bites imposed on itself. It is a kind of mathematics familiar in video games, but has turned upside down due to the effect of controlled and turbulent eating. This is it There is no concrete Madame of open -faced skewers from Final Fantasy XVA beautiful dish as strong.

In most video games, food means strength: Final Fantasy XVCrook Madame gives a reward that increases the damage of the attack. Wrapped in Skyrim It restores one health point. When Link eats mushrooms in Zelda legend: the kingdom’s tearsHis heart is restored. You consume me Use the familiar language for video game statistics to smart expectations. Food is simply reduced, food is no longer a source of energy. It is something to control it, to fear. HSIA offers a teenage diet, because this is notes, after all-as the first goals of many goals that consume, supposed, in addition to the ideal life.

It simply begins, as Jenny’s mother criticizes her weight. The solution there, of course, is the diet, which is represented in You consume me your Treis-Sque minigame. The diet, which is ultimately clarified as turbulent eating, works as anchor for years of genetic life, extends dating, friendships, and entry into the college. You consume me It works brilliantly because a diet and other small games are not just simple interactive elements, but are designed to serve the story. Following a diet forcing the player to eating mathematics mentality. And not only bites accounts, but how these bites affect the rest of Jenny’s life – if Jenny has a lot of bites at lunch, she will need to exercise during her spare time, which means that she will have to choose between neglecting her school work or her boyfriend. (Eat a little food, Jenny will end up retreating on hot chips before bed, and often back away from any sting deficit.)

It is an impossible fact that you are a teenage girl. Expectations are Treis The plate where the brick does not stop. When you have wiped a row – being beautiful and smart – there is another backward shape. You consume me It takes place throughout the days of weeks of Jenny’s life, which the player must play her decisions by playing through different small games, each of which raises Jenny skills or knocks something from the review list but takes a limited time. And every decision, even just staying late, feels terrible, because in this reality it is.

Reading, for example, is a small game that the player must keep Jenny’s eyes on the book while turning her head, or avoiding her thoughts from her puppy, boyfriend or body. Exercise is to stick to genetic weapons full of right situations. They are all messy in the same way Warroer Microgames is the anxiety atmosphere of Jenny’s life. Failure to any of the main Jenny goals means having to start again, either restoring a full day or week. It is not necessarily difficult to complete Jenny goals, but it requires an anxiety strategy, which is the point. You consume me Mental nails of its teenage champion.

Years pass You consume meJenny goals have shifted and changed slightly. These goals are dictated to her through the transfers version of itself to talk to it in the mirror. But the diet is still not negotiable throughout the entire gamepable parts of the game. This is logical: rarely disturbed food and image. It can also be about the illusion of controlling a person’s life through a person’s body. Even as genetic priorities change, bites remain always. Even, suddenly, they do not.

You consume me It ends with a 10 -year -old jump, and any kind of decision is to eating an eating disorder. But it is clear that something happened in this decade – it may be partially related to the reckless religious advancement that strikes at the end of the game – because food is no longer a balance in Jenny’s life. The sausage is no longer three long blocs, and it depicts its bites of 200 or so. It is just a sausage. She thinks about food, image and diet, but she is no longer hidden in her life.

There is a risk of existence You consume me It ended without some distinct accuracy, but it is just another example of the reason for the work of the game: it is a confident note not ashamed of the chaotic bits.

_{You consume me Available now Steam.}