I was really hoping to like this more than I did. I love the story concept, where you have this kid under pressure to live up to expectations and wanting to do something else. I love the visuals with all the details backgrounds and alien monsters. The voice acting is great as well!

But holy shit, the gameplay is so fucking boring - and I say this as someone who loves visual novels and walking sims

For a large portion of this game, all you do is press D to move yourself left while animated set pieces move in the background. Sometimes you press jump, sometimes you press shift to shred your guitar but that's all - you're not likely to mess this up. The other main gameplay mechanic is Simon Says, where an alien plays a sequence, and then you copy. I saw a lot of reviews say this part was too easy but I actually really really struggled with it, because I have memory issues.

I just wasn't having a good time, holding my D key down for - no exaggeration here - 15 to 20 minutes, only to play Simon Says. After going through some interesting story and dialogue, the game placed me in what looked to be another really long platforming section and I just...could not do it lol