Cosmology of Kyoto appears at a first glance as an interactive horror experience that transports you into a medieval Japan filled with death and desolation, disturbing and mysterious in a way that perhaps very few other games manage to be, but it is soon realized that it is much more than simply that: is also a virtual encyclopedia of myths, legends, historical facts, habits and values of an entire culture, which are meticulously described in rich fact sheets accessible at any time from a game menu.
Cosmology of Kyoto is a bizarre and surreal object in which you constantly die and resurrect, in which it only matters to keep moving forward by looking around and exploring every reference that the game puts in front of you, in which you wander through piles of corpses and otherworldly realms, get dismembered by demons and tricked by ghosts, get reincarnated in a thousand different bodies, and relive centuries of stories and legends miraculously enclosed in a couple of hours of Japanese hallucinations.
It's really unfortunate that there's not a properly accessible way by today's standards to enjoy this game because I think it really deserves to be among the very few games that manage to make a category of their own, to function in some way by only resembling themselves and delivering such a rich and special experience.
An extraordinarily cultured and insightful nightmare, as wonderful to look at as it is free from all categories, experimental and curious in every single aspect.