I admittedly grumbled when I first saw that all too familiar notebook-writing conjuring itself over the scenery of the opening walk through the garden. In the vein of previous titles, such as Gone Home and What Remains of Edith Finch, Annapurna Interactive return to telling sad stories, about annoyingly twee young people, through mind-bending environments that abstract their changing mental states.
The relationship narrative here is simple but painfully typical of this sort of game. It was only last month PS Plus gave us Concrete Genie, another smug game about sketching hipsters, ugh.
That said, it works just fine, syncing emotionally the enjoyable (and sometimes hard?) puzzle-solving gameplay.