While A Long Goodbye was a quick talk through memory lane, this game similarly focused on people you shared time with is a stretched out experience to make the tension between the characters to feel more akward, and as such it brings a more cynical approach. The protagonist wanted this trip to feel he could fit in somewhere again with his former friends after university left him feeling alone... But the lake they spent time together in is now filled with a store in it, just like how their busy lives ended up burying all their connections and how they can't go back expecting it to be as charming as they once thought it was.