This review won't do justice to what this game means to me but to put it bluntly, I think this is the most a game has hit me with its themes since some of my other favourites. It certainly wasn't what I expected getting into the game.

It's perfect in all its technical and aesthetical aspects but that's also where its biggest flaw comes in, that stupid fucking filter during the last act of the game that made me want to gnaw my eyes out. I genuinely have few qualms without it.

I haven't seen self -acceptance presented with such grandeur while being nuanced. For that alone this is undoubtedly my game of the year. Props to all its other narrative strengths.