Kathy Rain is an atmospheric and well written adventure game set in small town America in 1995. The writing and voice acting is excellent with believeable dialogue. The pixel art is gorgeous capturing the feel of an early 90s adventure game perfectly. Conwell springs is a moody town seeming to be under perpetually grey autumn skies punctuated by frequent showers. This suits the tone well though that's not to say it's unrelentingly bleak. There's some good jokes in there and Kathy is a likeable protagonist. She's smart, tough and won't back away froma fight with a biting sense of humor. But she's human too displaying moments of vulnerablity and sadness showing her as a complete character rather than a simple archetype. The ending is a little underwhelming, I felt they didn't really explain everything but I think that may have been intentional, to leave the player something to think about afterward. I'd love to see a sequel.
