Edgeworth's games are very different in structure but SO GOOD. I played the first one when it came out and it instantly became my favorite in the series. I still need to get around to playing the sequel though, lol.
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I've bounced off a couple souls games before but I'm now like 150 hours deep into elden ring on a friend's copy, lol, but they only have the base game. I'd like to play the dlc (which is not on sale) eventually so I think it makes sense to get my own copy at some point (I've heard transferring saves is pretty easy on pc)
ETA: I normally don't like hard games but I keep feeling like elden ring is encouraging me to be better rather than trying to defeat me, which is a difference I think a lot of hard games miss
IMO outer wilds has a strong tone of optimism and hope in the face of existential dread, so I think you're probably good on that front. And if you're at all a fan of environmental storytelling and don't hate physics sims, I think you'll like it just fine. If you're super unsure, maybe watch like the first hour (or less if you find your answer early) of someone doing a blind playthrough and see if the manner of storytelling grabs you.
Lots of good answers here, but I'll add some gay to the mix as well:
- Cherry Magic, a story about the need to know others and the vulnerability of being known with a strong emphasis on healthy communication.
- Given (first season ONLY), a story about healing from trauma and letting out difficult emotions via art. The anime very cleanly divides the somewhat fraught manga between the actual cute and wholesome (though often sad) story of the high schoolers in season 1, and the extremely unwholesome and honestly kind of disgusting messy drama of the university-aged bandmates in the movie, so I'd suggest just watching the tv anime and pretending the story is over.
- Sasaki & Miyano - just a cute little fluff anime. light on substance, but so sweet.
I'll also second My Dress-Up Darling* and A Sign of Affection and add My Happy Marriage, Snow White with the Red Hair, and Recovery of an MMO Junkie
*depending on how you define "wholesome". I know some people would require it to be chaste, which dress-up darling is very much not, lol. IMO, the story uses sexuality to inform and develop the characters and their relationship and does so in a very wholesome way.
The thing is, Maomao is absolutely of the correct sort of lineage to marry into the royal family. Lakan is one of the Emperor's most trusted advisors and the head of an important family; he's on par with Shishou, whose daughter is one of the Emperor's highest ranking concubines. Maomao may have been born a bastard, but her parents are married now and Lakan considers her a daughter, which (to my understanding) would have been enough at the time to retroactively make her a legitimate child. If she were to wear her lineage openly, she would be of higher standing than almost everyone she interacts with.
If someone is open to the idea of replacing liberal democracy with a different system, that is them being open to not being a liberal. If they want to replace out current system with an extremely similar system with the hope that it won't turn out like this again, that's still conservative at its core.
I'm just not really sure what point you're trying to make. Why are you bringing up people who have been dead for hundreds of years? Their context was so radically different than anything we have ever or will ever experience that their liberalism is a fundamentally different movement than the liberalism of today.
I've heard that recommendation a lot - "play DS1 first because otherwise you won't have the patience to play it later", and TBH all that tells me is to skip 1, play the more recent entries, and then move on to the many, many other games that I keep meaning to play, lol.