Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk Reviews

Atmosphere, art style, and musical ambiance are cool but there isn't really interactivity. You just click through dialogue non-stop. I prefer more interaction in a VN. Story seems pretty edge-lord and I feel like most of the positive reviews are just circle jerking.

интересная игра. отдаленно напоминает себя. заставляет задуматься

We're back with milk, but we're not better yet. We have a lot of trauma and scattered thoughts to work through. The world in milk outside is a bit more detailed and colorful. It's almost as if some of the monochromatic splotchy visuals from inside a bag of milk have cleared as a product of us finishing our task and working through some of the trauma in the first game. The game is still shades of black purple and red, however. The world is still colorless, the outside of our home is still an abyssal blur. We have much more options of proceeding. We can drown in it all and die or we can help ourselves work through some more of our trauma. I thought milk inside was the most quickly relatable a character could be to someone who dissociates and deals with trauma and executive dysfunction. Milk outside has come in and thrown suicidality and online harassment into the mix. Milk girl is honestly one of my favorite characters in gaming. You get so much depth to her character in a playthrough of a half hour. It's crazy.

I bought this game out of curiosity and enjoyment of the pixelized art on it, bought this and the previous released. The game really dives into the mind of someone who suffers from a severe Mental Illness. It is mind-breaking, horrifying and somewhat emotional, I say emotional since you do feel bad for the main character and the diologue choices you get.

This was agonizingly great. The soundtrack and sound design are eery and captivating, the art style is fully realised, and the writing is sharp, surreal and on point that it's easy to peel it off and start understating the many layers it covers itself with.

Great follow-up that takes place immediately after the events of the first game. A bit longer, a bit more diverse regarding the art style and just as captivating as the first one. A must-play if you liked it.

I honestly really like this game. I feel I can empathize with her and her many problems, the horror elements of the game only make the story better, the soundtrack is great, and the multiple endings make it interesting to go for. For only $11 and 3 hours of your time you can enjoy both Milk inside and Milk Outside. (I would sell my kidneys to help her and give her a hug she deserves it)

The horrific visuals only add to the story while it shows how the world is completely different for someone who doesn't understand what they are going through. I haven't played milk inside a bag of milk yet but I will soon. Soundtrack was agonizinly good and contributed more to the atmosphere alongside the art style. Here's hoping I'll never be lactose intolerant or else....

This is one of the best stories about deep, [b]deep[/b] mental illness I've seen. Time and time again I've found myself intensely empathising with the author, because there is no way you'd write psychosis, derealisation, loneliness and fantasizing [b]that well[/b] without being intimately personally familiar with them. If I were a video essayist, I'd make a video about this longer than the runtime of the game. Of multiple runs. Because it deserves a thorough, empathetic dissection of all of the mental health themes scattered throughout the story. And somehow, it avoids being pessimistic and cynical. You can see hope for the future shining through all the muck the protagonist is held down by. Even though she's in deep, deep shit, and has been in even deeper shit in her life (something you can find out if you press her repeatedly on it - which is, again, very realistically written in how you unearth memories your brain deeply suppressed). Unless I missed something, she's not even [b]that[/b] bogged down by S thoughts regularly - she constantly fantasizes about escaping her toil [i]because she wants things to get better, not because she wants herself to end.[/i] There is constant self-loathing in dialogue, yes, but that [i]feels[/i] more like force of habit than something that affects her a lot. I am very familiar with that behaviour pattern both in myself and in people I've known. The game has a couple of endings, and I encourage you to look up a [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3133836856]100% Achievement guide[/url] to get them all (that should stretch your game experience to about 3 hours, I've only got more because I've beaten this game twice last year). Some are unfortunately clearly worse than others, and while I won't list them all here, I want to shout out: Everything Is Fine Ending (or the Mirror Ending) - great portrayal of derealisation and self-image issues with minimal communication means and a healthy dose of good ol' horror. [spoiler]The exact same dialogue repeating every time reinforcing the idea of just how everyday dealing with those issues was to her, even when she was functional.[/spoiler] The Shop Ending was a bit unremarkable to me since it's just a musing on the first game's story... but the moment the girl [spoiler]wakes up[/spoiler] makes it an instant classic for me. In fact, that's what cemented for me the idea that the girl is still very much hopeful for improvement: no matter how good or bad the Ending you get, she's still [spoiler]getting a dream when she hasn't dreamt for a LONG while and that makes her tear up as soon as she wakes up - in my opinion, those are not despair tears, those are cathartic tears. She may still have nightmares, she may still have nightmares [i]each time she goes to sleep....[/i] but at least she's having them while asleep, not while derealising while awake and just flying off the handle of reality into vivid images of her own torture and death.[/spoiler] MoaBoM is ultimately a story about getting better through finding a good coping mechanism that works [b]for you.[/b] I don't care how "cringe" you think it might be, but if pretending you're a protagonist of different genres of games, or pretending you have a friend in your head* gets you through your day? Then I say you fucking do it. *or, in the protagonist's case, she might have actual DID, who knows.

I really didn't have a reason why I decided to play this game and the first one, and I still can't think of a reason why other people should play it either. Its like being put in someone else's body that sees the world so differently from you that you can barely recognize or understand anything. If you're curious enough, It'll be an experience that may mean something or nothing to you.