i want to like this game so badly. the artstyle is gorgeous, the music and sound design are both incredible, and it had the best first hour of any game i played in 2022. sadly, the story cant sustain the intrigue it builds up over the course of the first hour or so, and a game supposedly about a Last of Us style journey across many different locales stops dead in its tracks by the third new space, and 70% of the main story takes place in one hub area.

character writing and dialogue is consistently strong, but the actual overall story becomes utterly incoherent by the end of the game. i genuinely did not understand the literal moment to moment events and exposition.

so much story potential sadly not put to proper use