Great platformer, mechanically and in its challenge design. Poor narrative vessel, especially in its character roster. It nails the pathos, though - the angst, the self-loathing driven by the awareness of the angst, the lack of purpose, the fixation, the stubbornness, the perseverance. Pushing the player to great lengths in order to synchronize their achievement with Madeline's is genuinely quite inspired, but having to see Oshiro again in the epilogue takes the wind out of the sail.