He names her Buddy and raises her in seclusion alongside his childhood friends. However, one day Brad stumbles upon a baby – a girl. It’s a dangerous and deadly world out there, with humanity crawling towards a slow, painful extinction. Take too much Joy and a person turns into a horrific mutant. After the flash, a drug called Joy – which makes you feel nothing – began appearing. Lisa’s elder brother, Brad, feels immense guilt over what happened to his sister and became a drug addict karate teacher after her passing. Naturally, society collapses, and the once green town of Olathe becomes a desert wasteland. In a blink of light, all women disappeared from the world (the game doesn’t address trans or non-binary people). Some time after the events of The First, the world ends in an event called The Flash. The First ends with a simple Game Over screen, and you really only find out what happened to her on the title screen of The Painful. In the end, she fails – Lisa will never be able to escape what he did to her. Inspired by Yume Nikki and EarthBound, it followed the titular character as she came to terms with, and attempted to escape from abuse at the hands of her father, Marty Armstrong. Lisa: The Painful is actually the sequel to an RPG Maker game called Lisa: The First. And don’t even try to get out of the decision, because then you’ll lose it all.

You will be on your last legs, with a few party members left standing and one healing item, then the game will ask you to choose between their lives, your items, or your right arm. Lisa isn’t just hard, it’s intentionally torturous. They’re fascinating explorations of the cycle of abuse and great instances of choices in the narrative directly affecting gameplay, but it takes a certain kind of mindset to play the game to completion. I’ve always described Lisa: The Painful and its DLC epilogue, Lisa: The Joyful, as amazing games I would never recommend to anyone ever.

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