I have not yet finished HOME GAME 3. There is a -lot- of game here, and the time I have for videogames these last pawful of months have been scarce. The result of this is every so often, I get bit by a bug which compels me to play for a few consecutive days, get stuck, and get bit again some amount of time later. This relationship that I have with this game makes one of its strongest attributes readily apparent: there is magic here. Really, HG3 is truly alive.
I'll be poking around, making significant, shocking, incredible progress, diving into previously unknown depths, and then get stuck again. Sniffing around every corner, unable to find my way. Eventually, exhausting every possible thing (surely...) to be done, I put it down. Returning a week or even a month later, the game explodes! As if everything changed while I was away. Discovering corners that could have never been discovered before, opening vast and deep avenues for exploration...
Videogames used to often have all sorts of urban legends attached to them. People whispering to eachother that if you interact with some series of obscura in some game, something strange and miraculous will happen. HOME GAME 3 carries with it this feeling in the actualized form. HOME GAME 3 is magical, full of strange and wonderful secrets and surprises, a genuinely one of a kind experience. It is by all means a masterpiece.