This game was a really nice experience, like playing through a short film or something. Music and art was really nice, characters felt genuine and realistic, which is rare, especially with the child characters. Always a fan of the weird little girls trope.

Three complaints:
- The cut to black for all dialogue doesn't feel like anything except an excuse to not animate cutscenes. And the sad thing is, even poorly animated cutscenes would've been better than black screens. The dialogue here never gets so extraordinary that super intense animation would've been needed. Maybe arm gestures or head turns and stuff. But because most of the game is dialogue, it really limits how much you're able to look at the environments, which is really sad.
- Not sure why you can't control the camera with the mouse in the free movement segments. The mouse isn't used for anything else and I kept wanting to look around with it.
- You talk to characters by going up to them and hitting space. Despite this, and despite the fact that the screen cuts to black for all dialogue anyway, you still have to be both standing and looking in an extremely specific direction to trigger the 'begin dialogue' prompt to appear.