I liked the story rooted in Chinese mythology, even though I know woefully little about the subject. The game was very much willing to educate with all of the journal entries which was nice. There were a handful of poignant moments which I find games struggle to accomplish without being really corny.

On the other hand the puzzles ranged from "made me feel clever" to "brute forcing a solution is the intended route" which had me resorting to a walkthrough rather than grind out solutions in puzzles not built for multiple goes.

Interesting game that didn't outstay its welcome.

Constant backtracking around unlit, labyrinthian locales looking for the One Object that progresses the story. Maybe it's in a previously visited room, you can't know because, while the map is lousy with batteries and "spare parts", key items are often squirreled away from your prying eyes.

Speaking of eyes and their prying; I haven't a CLUE what (detective?) Carl Faubert is doing here and the game is not interested in telling me. No clear end goal for the player results in a game loop of "just doing shit 'til the game is over".

In the end I got tired of spending 50% of my playtime wandering aimlessly and circuitously through samey corridors because I couldn't magically intuit the right way to go with zero hints.