At some point during Blanc, I stopped in my tracks and asked the question "Should this have been a Pixar short film". And regrettably, my answer is yes. The main themes, blatant as they are when you're bombarded with them over the course of several hours, could've served as nice baselines for a story told in 5 minutes. The game elements, i.e. the cooperation stuff, all feel stilted and too mechanical for their own good, another argument against using such a limiting medium. The artificial attempts at introducing some level of tension all fall flat, because the game never really follows through on any of them. The limitied number of interactions, the awkward controls, no part of this game really justifies its existence as something other than an animated short, with the nice visuals being the only thing holding it up. Also, I had to restart it multiple times because of bugs, which certainly didn't help.