There are games as Games and there are games as vehicles for stories and there are games that are meta.

This game is all three of those things, and while it teases things that simply do not matter til the sequel it succeeds in telling the story it wants to tell in a far more mature way than I expected.

Notably though there are too many reskins of boss enemies, and the puzzles vary from braindead to weirdly confusing.

Still gets my recomendation for Best Dad Game.