A detailed and heartfelt personal-stakes story and shockingly high production values (especially after the Syberia 3 debacle) combine here to produce something actually quite good, as long as you're prepared for an experience more like a Dontnod game than a puzzler. The only real negatives are how bizarre the inciting setup is and how little to do with the rest of the series it all feels.

I think I'm prepared to - narrowly - forgive this in the end, but the decision to, in 2022, make a game fundamentally about the tragedy of World War 2 and yet refuse to say the words "Nazi" or "Jew" is a cowardly misstep.