A fascinating game experiment. I believe calling it more of an interactive movie rather than a videogame is justified. I first played this game around the time it originally released and was being showered with praise, so I already knew what the central reveal was this time around. But still, there were many details I didn´t remember, and was surprised by how many little things I had yet to discover.

The best way I´ve found to appreciate the game is to truly try and engage with it. Get a notebook and a pen out, put your detective cap on, and start taking notes. This is something I didn´t do the first time around, opting instead to just try a bunch of stuff and later look up a list of keywords online, which I don´t think it´s a bad option if you are just looking to clear out the last few remaining and rather inconsequential video clips. But there´s nothing that will get you into it more than paying attention and really experience it like I believe it was intended to be experienced.

There´s a real freedom in the limitations that the game imposes on you. It´s fairly easy to just discover what would be considered the ending of the story right at the beginning of your first play session, but you´ll be wrong to think that this ruins the experience somehow, you should follow the breadcrumbs, in every direction you want, and uncover piece by piece not just a mystery or a twist but a fascinating and inventively told story.