Enjoyed but the sound presentation consistently underwhelmed me and kept me at arm's length. Where I the player am stumbling clumsily through a nebulous, imaginative, beautifully evocative first person point'n'click pixel world, the sound and music are prosaic, empty, and downright normal at times. I just felt overall cold as a result, even despite the game showing me so much warm flesh to bite into. The combat bits also felt obligatory, and the top-down rotational map bits didn't rise past being bare-bones maps. Plot elements like the Garretts are interesting and certainly have their jokes but didn't feel like they ultimately came together into something arresting. In short, I got the feeling of depersonalization that certainly was at least somewhat intended, but it didn't feel like it dovetailed with the work.

While I'm listening to the credits music again while writing this - you've got this fascinating screamed vocal line like "The Black Stone" by Kayo Dot in the background with an interesting drone track and warping synths, but nothing builds to encompass you and the drums are just the flattest possible dinky little sounds - they sound lame. Punch me in the face with these drums, man, make me FEEL something, christ. Just not for me, I guess.

Reviewed on Aug 21, 2023


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