Meaning, mortality, freedom, and the void. What games and anime reveal about what it genuinely means to be alive — and what happens when you achieve everything the world told you to want and discover it was never the point.
Existential Philosophy addresses the questions that clinical frameworks cannot fully answer and that applied ethics tends to sidestep: What does it mean that we exist at all? What do we owe to our own lives, given that they end? What is the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and the structures of meaning we construct to make existence bearable? These questions are, in fiction, often asked most honestly — not through dialogue, but through design. A game built around cyclical futility is a philosophical argument. A character who achieves everything and feels nothing is a clinical case study and an existential one simultaneously.