One of the few videogames I know that represent communication as an unpredictably realistic process, where subjective emotionality related to specific signs decides the flow of the conversation. Sometimes you won't be able to properly convey your thoughts or feelings to the many characters that ask for your advice throughout the game's 5-hours run. But that's how coding and decoding's chaotic give-and-take works in real life.

I'd love to see an expanded take on these ideas with a more nuanced use of mechanics in order to represent language's unending peculiarities, but just as it is, Grotto is nevertheless a very rich experience.