#a weird game that features strange antics and topics of depression loneliness anxiety and etc all presented in a mystery

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what i really enjoy about the beginner's guide is that davey (the character) does not play any of coda's games as they were meant to be played.

he is always finding some way to subvert them because he either has 1) no patience for coda's antics and/or 2) he already has an assumed idea of what the game should be about, and he forces that idea onto the game. it's like coda says: davey puts lamp posts in all his games, bc the lamp post symbolizes a meaning.

the lamp post does not mean anything; it itself is a symbol of meaning. davey projects hard onto coda, supposes that because he sees himself in coda's games, coda must also be depressed, anxious, he must also hate himself.

that must be the only explanation for any of them.

and it just. boggles my mind how the beginner's guide is always taken very literally, when it's really just an exploration on the relationship btwn a person and the art they're consuming; how someone who likes something can see that thing not for what it is, but what they think it to be.

#the beginner's guide #i have a lot of thoughts about this game. easily one of my favorite games of all time #its just #davey wreden's writing is phenomenal #i dont think coda is a real person. not truly #i think coda is a persona created for the game #it calls back to the stanley parable honestly #a weird game that features strange antics and topics of depression loneliness anxiety and etc all presented in a mystery #that cannot be solved right away? #sounds familiar #my post