One cannot live on vibes alone. Getting 3-4 hours into a narrative focused adventure game and finding the narrative still doesnt have any hook or tension, whilst also being very deliberately slow as hell, basically leaves me 2 acts in with nothing in the narrative keeping me interested.

Yeah the aesthetic is great and the dialogue system is good. And I get the appeal of the game's setting and what it's going for.

I dont think it helps that I think the adventure/puzzle gameplay segments are outright bad. There's nothing compelling in them at all and they go at about half the pace they should do.

If you want an Americana story focused adventure game with cool dialogue play the Missing.