I think that video game simulations are the perfect tool where you can actually go back and relive those memories-even if they are painful to you and find a way to cope with them. You're projecting memories, but at the same exploring them, you're actually trying to see how the impact on you and it's not a linear model. Games actually happen in real time, like therapy.
"Movies are linear stories that have you, the viewer, projecting yourself into. "The difference with movies and video games is that movies do not resemble therapy at all," says Caballero. But it has to be their decision, and that is really important." - Vander Caballero "If someone with alcoholism wants to stop being an alcoholic, they will stop. Video game developers are not therapists, but games do wield a very unique power to help people, or at the very least set them on the path to seeking help. Papo & Yo clearly struck a chord with people who were living with or who had lived in similar circumstances, then, and it is perhaps the preeminent example of a game that explores issues of alcoholism and addiction. "Games can really help people," he says, "and can help people to heal." Yet he didn't expect the inundation of emails, letters and social media responses that followed his game's release, which is something that persists today.
To him, this was a labor of love and a decidedly idiosyncratic game-one that, despite tackling sensitive material, was central to his own experiences and was simply a story that he wanted to tell. Players will need to learn to use Monster’s emotions, both good and bad, to their advantage if they want to complete their search for a cure and save their pal.Caballero explains that even when Papo & Yo was ready to ship, he had no idea what he had created. And yet, Quico loves his Monster and wants to save him.Īs Quico, players will build their friendship with Monster by solving puzzles together and adventuring through a magical, surrealist world. The minute he sees one hop by, he’ll scarf it down and fly into a violent, frog-induced rage where no one, including Quico, is safe. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs. Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him.
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