Really good, not just in spite of but in a lot of ways because of the Edge. Some of it really does still feel unnecessary, even after several runs, but it's still very effective. The intentionally cruel difficulty is offputting, and I really can't count how many times I just wiped in the early game those first blind runs. Once I learned through that, though, it really does have this fantastic feeling of progression and piecing things together, some of the best cryptic Souls-style storytelling-through-gameplay-and-fragmented-lore I've seen in a while, and probably The best in a horror game. Definitely technically weaker than the sequel, and the character writing leaves more than a little to be desired, but what's great is absolutely fantastic, especially for a one-person game. The way that Miro managed to craft together something genuinely unique out of SO many referential elements is impressive on its own- for a game that's so derivative, it ends up becoming a beautiful thing of its own by the end. Funger.

Reviewed on Mar 07, 2024


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