Positive first. The puzzles themselves are fantastic, easily on par with the Portal series. Taken by themselves, this is a very well made, fun puzzle game. My problem is entirely with the story and its lack of engagement. Nearly all of the lore is given to you in text files that are completely optional. To be clear, they're not missable, they're on a computer terminal right at the start of the stages. But there is nothing forcing you, or even insentivising you, to read them. There is very little active engagement or interaction with anything otherwise. That just didn't do it for me. After reading the first couple terminals, i just started avoiding them. I'll be honest that i can't comment of the quality of the lore because i didn't see most of it. Which is the problem. I beat the game and have no idea what the story is. It's one thing to have extra lore hidden away for those who want to find it, but i have almost zero idea of what the story is because nothing interacted with me during my playthrough. I didn't buy a book, I bought a video game. I want to play the game, not sit there reading about it.
