A great premise, but one that is held back by its often way too simple implementation. Most of the puzzles just involve figuring out the one thing you need to do to prevent that person from dying. There are a few standouts however, and in those cases it really was exciting to figure out the solutions after being stumped. Sadly the ending was lackluster, preoccupied with an overlong explanation of What Is Really Going On rather than tying things together in a satisfying way mechanically. Still, The Sexy Brutale has enough good ideas that it held my interest well enough through its 5 hours, I just think it could have been so much more.