The Missing is a decent puzzle-platformer with a story that hit me way harder than I was expecting. The main mechanic for the puzzles and platforming is the self injury and dismemberment. It's fairly novel and is an interesting way to interact with the world on top of being thematically relevant. Seeing the same long animations for it over and over again can get pretty tedious. The tedium doesn't stop there unfortunately as going through the puzzles can be an exercise in repitition. You often know the solution but wrestling with the movement and slowly enacting that solution can be too laborious. The story is worth seeing through. Although the framing of the story is perhaps overdone, the actual journey of the main character is what hit me the most when I realised what they were going through. Due to my perspective, I realised fairly late in the game where I imagine people who are going through or have gone through what J.J. is going through probably realised pretty early if not straight away. It is a story I appreciated seeing being told in a video game. It is unfortunate that the tedium of the gameplay ultimately gets in the way for me. I still think it's worth playing though.