I finished the entire first game and the first two chapters of the second; I just had to put it down.

We deserve much better video game dialogue in the year 2024. I assume the original Trace Memory didn't suffer from the dialogue problem as much since it was a simple text-based 2D DS game, but the cracks really start to show with this game's full voice acting. Ashley was endearing at points but come on man...the way everyone was like "wow today was a long day" after they saw Bill fall to his death LMFAO

Puzzles were underwhelmingly easy, and the main twists were predictable. Music was also mid for the most part.

The stylized drawn portraits and character models looked really nice but the environments had some really ugly texture work.

I am super appreciative and optimistic that Nintendo would revive these obscure ass Cing visual novels, but the way they did this was just not it for me. Would be great to see Hotel Dusk come back but if the dialogue was as terrible as it was here, honestly don't even bother.

The story of the first game was itself decently interesting but Edith Finch did it sooooooooo much better...please play Edith Finch instead!!!

$60 for this is a ripoff