It's oozing with style from nearly every corner and is very inspired in its goals to get the player to think critically on both investigating crimes and coming up with their verdicts. The game is at its best when it commits to this, and there's clear attention to complications in morality and truth in the narrative. This sets it apart from other recent games that similarly test your ability to unravel truth from incomplete facts (i.e. Return of the Obra Dinn, Heaven's Vault).

However, it's got a slog of a rising action. Part of this is due to an overreliance on overly simple collectathon-esque gameplay. It's also an open world game that never gives you very fun upgrades. There's a lot of redundancy as you're basically supposed to travel back and forth the island over and over with diminishing returns that can make things far less exciting. At the end of the day, I can see a good argument for why it's just not worth it to go through all of this.

Would love to see where this goes next (both the genre and the developer).