I really love the beautiful animation, the pleasantly sweet soundtrack, and the end of life storytelling that’s genuinely moving more often than not while showing a diverse range of ways people handle their end. The slow reveal of exactly what’s being depicted is great, too.

What’s not great (for me at least) is the specific type of repetitive and compulsive crafting busywork that makes up most of the gameplay. I generally find this sort of cozy chore doing to be loaded with needless friction and time-wasting, and that’s pretty much the case here. It’s not helped by how overly long the story is, though I’m not sure which characters I’d want to remove or even cut down my time with.