act 1 is a charming point and click adventure game experience with wonderful characters, dialogue, puzzles, world building, and all. act 2 shits the bed to a severity that i've rarely seen given how much i was enjoying the first half.

not sure who the target audience for the game was the more i think about it. going in i thought this was something aimed at being a potential first in terms of adventure/puzzle gaming for new players while appealing to everyone still but with how the puzzle difficulty goes off the rails i'm not so sure. i know with the acts releasing separately what came in act 2 was probably a response to the reception of act 1 but it's too bad that it resulted in such repetitive and miserable puzzles.

could absolutely see myself returning to play act 1 and then dropping the game there someday.