The subtitle 'A Simple Story' is very true, so if you have ever played a sad indie adventure, you won't find anything new here. Did you know that your child and your wife and finally yourself dying is sad? In any case, it's aesthetically way ahead of other games (The First Tree among others) and especially early on the time manipulation feels very good to use. I just feel like they missed the opportunity to tie that into the narrative - Timelie did it for example.

In the end, it really just becomes way too kitschy. Play RiME instead, which also uses tropes a bit too hard but ties its gameplay better into the narrative and has a more nuanced metaphorical world. And it's not the constant black-and-white switches between love (good) and sad (bad) while a big bearded man is faceplanting onto the floor for the fiftieth time.