>>10701I feel you, that sense of wonder and amazement that used to be there, now we're just used to it. For game as influential as Yume Nikki, its hard to not feel that it is everywhere now. Every indie game has light horror elements now, immersive routes to get to one place, even vocaloid nowadays envoke the crazy abstract feeling despite not being quite as there. The internet has latched onto everything I enjoy recently and it feels like a lot of the magic is just gone, alongside with the original fandom I once enjoyed and in it's place, people who are more than annoying to deal with. Call it overexposure but even that once magical feeling I got with anime is faded too, now that every strip mall has its own shitty anime shop.
It's just a part of life. We eventually have to move on. I still wonder where everyone who was here back then went. And if they are better off being gone from the scene. Maybe I should move on too, but I don't know what can fill the void. I've been making music recently, but I am starting to get burnt out of that too and tired because it is a much more lonesome hobby than I anticipated. Growing up is hard.