More or less a 3D visual novel. Well, sort of. The actual dialogue scenes occur in black screens with little hand drawn portraits accompanying the dialogue. The quirky visual style is accompanied by equally quirky writing that is ultimately in service of a story about mundanity, which actually winds up being a fairly nice balance. Wide Ocean, Big Jacket offers nothing that is particularly profound or revelatory but that is in part the point, that small, quiet realizations and conversations are stories worth telling, because they still shape our lives. That might not leave the game with a lot to work with but it makes an impression nonetheless.