It’s a common theme throughout In Real Life that people want to take what they’ve got and rise above. Having moved from out of town to a place where her friends are new, the surroundings are unfamiliar and she hasn’t totally found her place yet, the game gives Anda a chance to simultaneously escape from her ‘real life’ problems and find a world where people think she’s awesome and that she definitively kicks ass. Like any other teen her age who feels isolated and a little bit lost, Anda turns to Coarsegold Online for a sense of belonging. It’s realistic without being too hard hitting but it’s jovial without being too jolly, which is perhaps why I like In Real Life so much. But while Coarsegold Online may not really exist, the problems within the game are taken from the MMOs of our own world. Where I forget to log in regularly or give up on the daily grind, In Real Life‘s young protagonist exceeds, slashing, dashing and powering her way through enemies to hoover up XP, gold and respect from her peers, becoming one of the greatest players that the fictional MMO of Coarsegold Online has ever seen. I am not very good at MMOs but through the eyes of Anda I learn what it feels like to be an MMO god.
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