There's a lot to like in this game.
Lovely art design (I really like character animation especially), great soundtrack (by Japanese Breakfast, I really need to revisit her discography), open world that's not intimidatingly huge and is fun to explore. Also I think it was a good decision to do away with combat and focus only on exploration.
The story where you see the world, meet people to contemplate and decide who you really want to be really hit home because of where I'm in right now in my life. The game basically lets you freely decide how you want to proceed, and it felt like a perfect way to tell the kind of story the it's trying to tell.
It's a shame that the game is plagued by technical problems (at least on Series X) like constant stuttering, framerate drops, music and sound effects keeps cutting in and out etc. which keep it from being a pleasant experience it could've been.

Reviewed on Mar 18, 2022


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