I have extremely mixed feelings about this game. This game has incredible cinematography and the general narrative is absolutely compelling. Yet, I don't think I can, in good conscience, recommend it to anyone.
If there's a direction they can push too far, they probably did. I might have just gotten unlucky, but I had like a half hour of this game where it was just sx scene after sx scene, and it was absolutely exhausting. There are content warnings in the menu, but i think this game also highlights a big issue with content warnings. I saw the content warnings and assumed I could handle it, but there were several times I had to step away.
Playing the game itself is also a bit exhausting and wasn't very fun. The game consists of watching a clip, then clicking on something or someone in the clip to find another clip with the item or person. This was also the case with Her Story, except that Her Story is significantly smaller and you choose words instead of things on screen.

My biggest annoyance was that there is something in the game that requires rewinding the same clip and playing it over and over again until you rewind in the exact correct way. This was a really cool mechanic, but at the same time, it felt weirdly difficult to do (I was on steam deck), and required listening to the same few seconds repeatedly. Including during times of content that was quite uncomfortable.

This game has a lot to say about art and the nature of art as well as the juxtaposition it has towards order. It goes into several really interesting topics, but you probably should discover that on your own.

Overall, the game is cool, and it's definitely art and beautiful art at that, but it just was a bit too much in every direction.

Also this game is a horror game, just so y'all know.

Reviewed on Nov 15, 2022


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