This game is really cool!! I think the way this game handles tone works really well! There are a couple moments where it's like.... how was the player supposed to figure this out actually. And those bits take away from the game as a whole, because part of the fun of a mystery is enjoying the challenge of a puzzle and getting a sense of accomplishment from working through them yourself, and when they feel less like puzzles and more like either knowing the answer or random trial and error until something works you no longer achieve that reaction so much as a sense of frustration. Setting a death timer on what seems like a largely trial and error puzzle feels..... not particularly fair. I guess that doesn't matter and it makes the experience more real? Who's to say if you were really in this situation that you could expect to survive, and why should the expectation of a video game be that you overcome all, or that you are supposed to be set up to win? But in terms of... playing a game, where that often is an expectation of the medium, it is certainly frustrating

Reviewed on Jan 12, 2023


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