It's rare for a game to appeal to first timers and veterans, but with the mix of the streamlined interface and the challenging puzzles manages exactly that. Provided you are attracted to brain teasers, you can pick this up and you can do it a few minutes at a time, or in a single sitting depending on what works best for you.
Nearly every negative thing about this comes down to personal preference; it is a walking simulator with no source of danger and no interactivity. It is like they took an introspective short story with no real action and adapted it directly into a video game. If that is your sort of thing, then this is a polished, atmospheric, bite-sized experience.
Great puzzles. Taking inspiration from but not ripping off Silent Hill 2(one of the best games ever made) and removing the combat element gives us this. The horror is quite effective with a constant creepy atmosphere that gradually increases and occasionally peaks with brief flashes of intense brutal gore. The important message is clearly communicated
I will go easy on it because it is currently free. Comparing this to its contemporaries, other platformers from the early 90s, this is passable, but not that impressive. The entire experience was made frustrating(not in a fun, challenging way) by bad design: the platforming is slightly stilted, the way your attacks work, enemies popping in from off screen, etc. The near complete lack of context and lore means that it's difficult to get all that invested; this is literally the only platformer of the over two dozen I've played where I got two-thirds of the way through before getting any information on the context. It's the least challenging platformer I've ever played, which I will say does make it perfectly fine for someone who is considering getting into the genre, or if you're kind of out of practice. I enjoyed playing all the way through all three episodes, but wouldn’t return to it.
