Game of Life

A video game character ponders upon what his life is leading to.

My name is Hero. I am a video game character. I have just defeated the villain, and the only thing left for me now is to complete the remaining achievements and then, the game will be completed.

My master has been playing this game for almost two months. It fills me with so much of happiness that I got him as my master of the game. I am lucky that it was he who put his hands over my CD cover and bought it. I can hear his cheers for me as he handles his joystick controller, encouraging me and asking me to beat up the bad guys. And let me tell you something, encouragement sure does energize me!

In fact, forget about encouragement - even if someone comes and just talks to me, it leaves me happy.

But for the past few days, I feel lesser emotions emoting from my master. It feels as if he has gotten bored with my game. The levels of encouragement have drastically reduced ever since the first time he had played the game. 

Am I not being a proper friend to him? Is he not enjoying the way I respond to him in the game?

No, of course not.

I have to accept the truth. The fact is that the game is almost over. My master will be bent upon completing it until he has achieved the hundred per cent trophy achievement and then, I'll be on the shelf. Probably for the rest of my life.

This is something which has happened to my friends, quite frequently. Some of them have been lucky enough to be played again, and again. Some have been quite unlucky, that they have been abandoned even without being played at least once.

My master loved me and my game when he got it at first. But it's almost over. 

And this is the truth that I have to accept. People like my master are just going to focus in completing the game until nothing else is left in the game. They aren't going to spare any thought for people like us, who think the world about them.

It's sad, but it's the truth. 

And it's not like I'm angry at them or anything - my master for all I know, could be a gem of a person. He could probably surprise me, and play with me for a very long time.

Whatever be the case, I will always continue to love my master. I will ensure that I will continue to be the best friend that I can be to him, and help entertaining him as much as possible. 

Author's Note

Thank you for reading! I'm open to any type of constructive criticism from all reviewers.

Reviews

[Jessica Jaufmann]

It makes me think of a dog and his master in that a dog has unconditional love and so does this video game character. I'd love to see this turn into an original video game story and have the main character slowly realize whats happening to him and his fate as a program. Since it's already simplistic in presenting the ideas, this could turn into a great story about belonging and love if a narrative world is created. Have you ever played a video game called SOMA? There are great play threw's on YouTube, check that out, it may install some inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yETFY9VqLbY