Keika Hanada is the only person that could make an april fools game that is both a meta meme game but also a laser-guided grief missile. A very odd, very specific story that is full of contradiction - it's so clearly a parallell story to Fata but it also so definetly isnt. The characters are Yakuza Ishin'd with them playing seperate people - but they also clearly are meant to draw on their original counterparts. It reads as extremely autobiographal, yet that doesn't add up.

Seventh Lair is a game that is clearly made for maybe less than a thousand people worldwide. It is almost explicit about that in it's own text. For everyone else, it's anything from ignorable to a downright managling of a work that is very impactful to them.

Still, even if you disregard the meta weirdness, Hamada remains just the absolute best at writing a story that will absolutely rip your heart out. The "life of a creator" chapters of Seventh Lair captures such relatable thoughts and emotions, as good as the peaks of Fata Morgana does. And I bawled my fucking eyes out.