I picked this up as a freebie in a GOG giveaway and had a fantastic time with it. The art style is simplistic but very pleasing and certainly helps to create an impactful atmosphere - especially when paired with the music which is fantastic and deserves a special mention. The gameplay is somewhat minimal, and could perhaps be a sticking point for some people: you guide the protagonist through the landscape on foot bar for a couple of short driving sections, and there are a few items to interact with along the way, but the vast majority of your time will be spent engaged in conversation with the other characters. As with the music, the voice acting in this game is mesmerisingly good - just as well seeing as so much of the game is spent in conversation! During a conversation, you get to choose how to reply but instead of your typical dialogue tree where you are presented with the different response options up front and pick which one you want to go with, here you pick from symbols representing emotions. For example, you may get a choice to pick either an enthusiastic response, a negative response or a panicked response. Because you only see the symbols, you're never sure what the main character will actually say, and while that is quite refreshing and can lead to some unexpected twists in the middle of a conversation, it can also feel a little jarring when a piece of dialogue comes out of left field and takes you on an unexpected/unwanted tangent. I completed this in a couple of afternoon sessions, playing at a leisurely pace; quite often stopping for several minutes to enjoy the landscape and hauntingly beautiful music. If you are looking for a relatively slow-paced adventure and can accept that this is not an action packed button masher, then you really can't go wrong with giving this title a go. It achieves what it sets out to achieve, and does it very well. If you can pick this up for less than £15 it's an absolute bargain.
