On one hand, this game is an interesting thriller with mysteries layering beautifully on top of one another. On the other, a good amount of them end up being not directly resolved within the main text itself, and require looking at the TIPS to even get all the required information to understand large parts of the story (entire characters exclusively exist in them) (and with some information even being excluded in some releases). Even with all this information, you probably won't even understand it all -- you'll be referred to "the blogpost," as it's called. Even after reading this, I remain unsatisfied.

The story isn't set up for the player to understand the answers to its mysteries. Don't get me wrong, I love mystery stories that don't directly reveal all its solutions; the issue arises when key pieces of information are included in menus that most players won't check, or drafting the correct conclusion requires an offhand understanding of the exact pseudo-scientific concept that the game hints at maybe sometimes. Even the blogpost itself admits at points that they're theory-crafting with incomplete information due to how vague and seemingly contradictory some scenes are.

Many solutions don't even make any sense. Some mysteries don't even have answers. I won't go over any here for obvious spoiler reasons, but if you've played the game you probably know which ones I'm talking about.

I've been told this game is incomplete, which explains much of this. Regardless of how unsatisfied I was finishing this game, I still had fun with some twists and overall enjoyed my time playing.

Reviewed on Sep 15, 2023


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