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Lena NW’s video game\/album Nightmare Temptation Academy<\/em> begins with a giant trigger warning. The elements of the game the player is cautioned about include “graphic sexual cartoon violence,” “glamorization of romanticizing of mental illness,” “furries,” “feminism,” “cartoon vagina,” “cartoon penis,” and “inter-dimensional sex.” This opening encapsulates the darkly hilarious art that is the work of Lena NW, also known as Fellatia G.<\/p>\n

NW has been known for games including\u00a0Viral<\/em><\/a>, which explores internet culture through a quest to become a social media star, and Fuck Everything<\/em><\/a>, which addresses rape culture and the male gaze through a bar setting that allows the player to have sex with various people, animals, and inanimate objects. Her creations are incisive, educational, entertaining, and disturbing all at once.<\/p>\n

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Nightmare Temptation Academy\u00a0<\/em>takes place in a high school during an apocalyptic era, mixing social critique with teenage angst \u2014 a lot of teenage angst. The soundtrack to the game, interspersed throughout it in the form of music videos and performed by NW’s rapping alter-ego Fellatia G, features lyrics such as “I hate my fucking life and I kind of want to die,” “I\u2019ve got no self-awareness but I’m still so self-conscious,” “I’ve been forced to endure my existence \/ I never consented to being born,” and “Dorian, you’ve got me worrying \/ snorting heroin again \/ laced with fentanyl \/ blaming mental illness \/ it’s detrimental to your health.”<\/p>\n

Throughout the game, you navigate through high school as the protagonist, a horny and depressed 14-year-old girl, tries to convince a senior boy to have sex with her, contemplates suicide, views a classmate’s erotic art featuring two boys in school, and argues about feminism with a popular girl.<\/p>\n