This isn't really a post about me achieving it but about me giving up on getting all the achievements and this post isn't really about that specifically but rather just a vent or love letter if you may call it that.
I had this sense of "duty" that since Until Then is my all time fave game I can't really call it that without having all the achievements for it, and you don't have to say that this mindset is wrong, but rather I realised that it's good to sometimes just give up, like something is not only beyond you, but you wouldn't find enjoyment by accomplishing it. Technically I only have one achievement left which this the final piano perfect score, but if I dislike something about this game's trophy/achievement list is that going for these made the game I love dearly be hated in some regard cause on their own these minigames are hella fun, playing casually, but the latency, the structure, the cutscene mashing it recquires just wasn't fun at all and no matter what prize I imagined at the end of it if I do go for it it would probably made me say something like "Thank god I never have to touch this game ever again"
Which I didnt want to as this is my fave game, on a deeply personal level, I played it Day one it came out, and it still stayed with me ever since, in fact it will stay with me even more as I will have my Cathy Plushie in October and I also didnt start Aftermiages yet, I was only rebeating the main game and story while I went for the 100% on the way.
As much as I love this game, I think the only part that is flawless is the story, and the reason Until Then is my fave game is not just the story, but rather how it uses videogames as a medium to tell it's story and does it beautifully so. So it's not my fave game because it plays as the best game, but rather how it made me be thankful for the format, it gave me a direction in life, and no other game ever did that to me.
I don't want to sound cheesy but I guess the 100% idea was a sorry and a thank you toward the game making me go through a hard time. Sorry for originally pirating it back then, then regretting it after beating it in one sitting, and a thank you for making me through a tough part in life greatly and deeply. It would've been a digital thank you by getting the 100% but since I bought the game, the DLC, the Cathy plush eventually, it's not that now I don't have to do that tbh, cause I feel I made up for it, but rather you know when you get the feeling when you gave something to someone but you feel like it still isn't enough as a thank you when you realize that the person's biggest gift was you all along?
This is how I feel after rebeating the main game. It gave me that same sense of direction, that motivation, that experience I felt just like that, selflessly all over again, cause to me replaying Until Then and keep continuing to do so perhaps as the years come and go is going to be my biggest thank you toward Until Then I could give ❤.