so fucking good! so satisfying and whimsical and bizarre with a perfect little gameplay loop. all the issues i had with this one were completely fixed in the follow-up, too--god, this whole series is just so good.

would probably give it a 3.75 if i could. it seemed perfect for the first few hours, but there were a lot of tiny shortcomings and issues that added up and became visible after putting 9 hours into it. the scene at the start where the vocals for "Glider" kick in in the dunes is the absolute peak of the whole game, unfortunately--but it was a very good peak and it gave me chills because japanese breakfast is fucking amazing.

pretty much a perfect little indie game! so much fun to traverse, entertaining characters, good music, and it looked fucking GORGEOUS on the oled steam deck. great way to kill an hour or two