Talk:A Nice Guy/@comment-7706473-20130913095556

Not only congrats on being read, but congrats on the writing. Earthbound is a game I hold near and dear to my heart, so I'm a little more judgmental of stories that work off of it but - well, this was fantastic. I *really* like the narrator, especially given the take I had of the end, which - and I'm gonna leave two bold asteriks here to denote *weird lillytheories ahead:*

... To my mind, our protaganist is telling this to us, directly - they make numerous references to being a good guy, to seing themselves as a good guy. What sort of good person needs to regularly tell themself that? Certainly, it could be guilt about impending suicide, but I felt with increasing glee that our protaganist musing over whether or not they could let others live in such pain was a rhetorical question - and the sensation of screaming drifting away on the breeze was in line with their compunctions drifting away as they prepared to smash and crush the cart into so many plastic shards.

Suicide or not however, the story was relatively brief, but packed full of flavor and detail. From the beginning I felt a vague and unsettling fear, and you managed to hit that sweet spot of carrying the tension without going into too much detail - of detailing the world for those unfamiliar with the game while having nods to it that die-hard fans'd appreciate. A dahlia, for a nice guy.

And even if they aren't a nice guy, that's the sort of person I could still happily be friends with.