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This game's got to be the most creative and at the same time outright disturbing way to narrate a story that I have ever seen in media. There is no salvation in garage: bad dream adventure. You are called to explore your past and define your present by interacting with the bleakest and darkest plastic caricature of mankind's corruption. The game relies heavily on symbolism, so while it can be very brutal about some heavy themes, it doesn't ever directly adress them, giving the player the opportunity to grasp the feeling of them rather than trying to have a conversation about them. Generally it's amazing how I never expected to be given the opportunity to think about the effects of trauma in human relationships and be morally conscious about prostitution and industrialization by fishing for Japanese frogs.
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Very immersive and unique animesque atmosphere, it doesn't really have the most mind-blowing plot in gaming fiction, sure, but it has something to say and it does so as well as it could in its small runtime, in the sense that you get a full hour (or more if you are bad at puzzles) of intensely trying to figure out what the hell led to you collecting body parts in an abandoned spaceship, with the confusion remaining after the final revelation (which is kind of a coomon trope, but it's cool/interesting in how they incorporated it specifically in this game), so yes, it doesn't fail in keeping you interested to see what happens next. The only thing I'll complain about is the puzzles, because some of them were pretty obvious while others would be almost impossible without a guide, so I'd find it cooler if they were made so that you get some sort of sense of achievement when managing to solve them. So yeah, interesting idea, impeccable atmosphere, cute (well, maybe not the best term but you get the idea) graphics, good writing, meh puzzles, nothing life-changing but it is fun in its own right and also impressive how a small group of people did this in 2005 and it's available for free.