Finally getting around to this after all these years and it's... ok! The characters are mostly bland (fuck Dan, jesus christ) and the story is pretty simple, but the setting and set pieces are cool. Art wise it's pretty damn nice looking with its classic pre-rendered backgrounds and that's where I got most of my enjoyment from. It's got this strange Soviet steampunk/clockwork aesthetic going on which is kinda awesome.

The puzzles are just ok, nothing mind blowing. Mostly obvious, sometimes nonsensical, and a small handful of pretty clever ones. You might end up having to pixel hunt a little and most of your time will be spent running back and forth between empty screens.

If you've ever seen the anime Kino's Journey, it feels kind of like an episode from that. Traveling to weird, surreal lands filled with strange sights and stranger people, and you can't help but want to see what's next.