I know everyone is like wow omg wholesome dad game with all white cast! yay! based!
But I am a father and playing the game makes me profoundly sad. I have real children near the same age and the game nails the mentality so perfectly I feel guilty playing it, like I am cheating on my real family. Maybe in 20 years I'll play through it to reminisce once they are gone. But I can't play it now for more than a couple minutes before feeling disgusting.
No one is realizing how seductive this is. Like porn tricks you into thinking you have endless women and thus defeating your drive to find a real one, Dad-games sap away your energy to have a real family.
I know in the hunter-gatherer sense all videogames are a waste of time and should be avoided, we're all addicts and none of this is healthy. I can't attack anyone for playing this game while I still waste time with other RPGs and shooters. But there's a reason this game came from a country where reclusive shutins are such a problem they have a completely collapsing birthrate.
Have you ever had an emotional reaction to a piece of art before? A painting? A classical music piece? A really good book? A movie?
Most people have. Most men have. That's why men are history's most renowned authors and poets. All of the The Great painters and composers are men. Some of the most long lasting and famous art in history, made nearly exclusively by men, is designed to evoke an emotional reaction in the audience. Do you not feel somber when listening to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14? Did you feel nothing when Tolkien wrote "And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last."? Most men do. If you don't feel anything from art, that doesn't make you more manly.