There are things to praise in The Medium. The art is good and the developers are skilled at creating a creepy atmosphere. The puzzles, while not anything amazing, are decent and serve their purpose in making your interaction with the world satisfying which can be a problem in narrative focused games with little to no combat. The split between two worlds with you controlling the two forms of the main character simultaneously is cool and works really well. They have enough technical expertise to make that work without performance issues. The load times after dying are surprisingly long on the PS5's SSD. The main department where this game falters is the writing which is a pretty big problem for such a story heavy game. There is a certain element that has some pretty awful implications. I would like to think that there was no maliciousness on the part of the writers and they just didn't think it through properly. Either way, they were not equipped to deal with a story with sensitive subject matter. It's worrying that Bloober are working on the Silent Hill 2 remake which deals with a lot of sensitive issues. If they focus on the strengths, i.e their art, and leave the story the way it is, it should be ok but we'll see.