while I was excited to play through Rebirth after giving the pre-release demo a try, that excitement was slowly but surely crushed beneath the incredibly, too long for their own good chapters, which were needlessly padded out by throwaway cutscenes, story "beats" and whatnot. while I did enjoy myself for a good portion of the first half of the game, right past the 15 hour mark I was beginning to feel fatigued. the last chapter and half of the second to last chapter did a decent job of bringing me back right before the ending baffled me right back into being angry I spent so long on this game. I'm giving it a high enough rating just down to the fact when the game was good, it was GOOD.