It's very unique in its core concept but that wasn't something that dragged me in and kept me playing.
The whole game is meditative and finding the exact mood where I felt that connection strongest certainly wasn't every day.

Given the themes of the game, I find it very interesting that practicing a mindfulness in approaching and playing the game felt like the appropriate way to play it.
I think this also matches up with the colours and soundtrack of the game. Both are simple at their cores but absolutely soaked in pure colour and bleeding life from them.

There was never a doubt that I was on an alien planet, far beneath the surface, studying all the I could see, giving time to the study, and feeling the world embellish itself through Ellerys notes and sketches really struck a chord. With everything else tied to the feeling of discovery, the game aligns itself into a soft pace of diving, finding, and making peace with what you find.

It was a real pleasure to play and it'll be stuck in my brain from here on out.