The production quality here is really impressive, especially now that there's full voice acting. The game itself is enjoyable enough--the way you can nudge Jenny's personality through dialog options that are more about selecting a mood than a specific phrase is a good system, but the writing and characterization isn't quite strong enough to bear up under that system. The mainline puzzles are generally a little more straightforward than I'd like, although that's more than made up for by the obtuseness of the optional puzzles.

As much as I appreciate the optional puzzles in the game, they hinge so much on finding particular objects and areas in the game that you'll almost certainly have to backtrack to find something you missed. And the game's frequent unskippable cutscenes, puzzles, and dialog moments--while fun the first time through--make it extremely frustrating to go back to a specific nook and grab a stray postcard piece or whatever.

Reviewed on Dec 01, 2021


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