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Looks great and has some cool ideas but this is a smart dumb guy videogame. And look, I'm a smart dumb guy myself so I'm not trying to be high-and-mighty here, but this is a lot less interesting than the way it's talked about. Thought this would be in the realm of Obra Dinn or Outer Wilds where it trusts you to think things through but instead it's very much a Modern Videogame which just asks for some basic pattern recognition and won't let you solve things until the game is good-and-ready for you to do so. Also has a bunch of inexplicable stealth sequences for some reason, and a thematic "it's because you be on that phone" tendency in the end that I don't care for.

Regardless it's pretty breezy and I had a good enough time playing it even though I wish it was better. I haven't played Heaven's Vault but I'm really curious how it deals with similar concepts.

Reviewed on May 26, 2024


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