I don't really know how to feel about the game. I finally finished on my third attempt at the game. The combat is shallow and boring (the reason I quit the first time), the world is hyper-quirky to a fault (the reason I quit the second time), but I still managed to enjoy my time playing... for the most part.

The Otherworld segments are long-winded and filled with unnecessary padding. The game could have benefitted from being A LOT shorter. The combat system is dull at best and incredibly frustrating at worst. The saving grace here is the story and the characters. The main four are very cute and the emotional setup in both the Otherworld and Faraway Town was very good. I cared about them, I cared about their fraught real-world connections, and I suffered the actual gameplay to see their stories through.

Then the game completely lost me in the last hour or so. The "horror" segments were always more silly than anything, but the finale cranked it up to just total edge-lord, shock value bullshit. The big reveal isn't just unrealistic, it plays like something straight out of the mind of a 13-year-old Wattpad trauma porn writer. It completely ruined the entire game for me to the point I now regret having put any amount of time into it.

(On top of that, the creator of the game is apparently a sweatshop-running pedophile, so it doesn't feel great knowing I put money in her pockets, but whatever!)

Overall, a mediocre game brought to an even worse level by a stupid plot twist and awful characterization.