Absolutely love this. It's clear how much of an influence Zero Escape was on their storytelling; taking that style of twisting decision tree that turns back in on itself, but applying it to a graphic adventure type game, feels great. Making it about collecting nouns is great, and I genuinely love how many of them are playing on double meanings of the words to make you think twice about what new options you might have unlocked earlier in the game by having collected a noun later on.
The story itself isn't necessarily all that special - it's going for a Stranger Things-style "kids uncovering a mysterious conspiracy" type of thing. But it's told well, and fundamentally it works. It does struggle a bit in the ending, which wraps itself up a little too cleanly right at the moment that something like Zero Escape would be throwing in another few surprise twists. But this also seems to be its creators' first attempt at this kind of game - I'm excited to see where they go from here.
The story itself isn't necessarily all that special - it's going for a Stranger Things-style "kids uncovering a mysterious conspiracy" type of thing. But it's told well, and fundamentally it works. It does struggle a bit in the ending, which wraps itself up a little too cleanly right at the moment that something like Zero Escape would be throwing in another few surprise twists. But this also seems to be its creators' first attempt at this kind of game - I'm excited to see where they go from here.