I wish I knew what made it tick with people. I do know what made it work at points, but then why does the game bury it under the fetid mud that is the "Game game" story. The banter is amazing but is it really good to have so much time spent in solitary dungeons with hundreds of reflex puzzles rather than doing stuff with your buds in any other context? Most of the humor from nameless npcs are also misses, the concept just doesn't have enough meat.

Chapter 7 is the true look into what this game could have been and I weep, it's so many missed opportunities that it baffles me when looking at the rest of the game and how it even taunts you. "Oh the actual ending of this game is due later as an expac" Then Crosscode does actually have a true ending DLC...uggggh