Spoilers abound, by the way. Also trigger warnings for physical abuse, sexual abuse, and suicide. Pros: Competently made. Environments look gorgeous, music’s pretty good, voice acting ain’t bad. Cons: EVERYTHING ELSE. Game sells itself on being spooky, yet there is no actual ghost story. It’s a story about abuse that fumbles the ball SO BADLY that it’s insulting and nearly dangerous. It romanticizes the grooming and sexual abuse of a teenager, painting her abuser as a good, even noble man who even the abused brother liked and had no problems with. It paints the abuser’s wife as a jealous woman who killed the abused and framed it as a suicide. That’s not even going into how it paints suicide as a goddamn positive where you can finally be with your loved ones again. I have this via PSN. It’s the ONLY game I’ve ever played that made me wish I could remove it from my library and delete every trophy I earned. Hell, I could’ve gotten a Platinum on this but that would’ve meant replaying it and I refuse to give this insulting, harmful, disgusting, inept game another second of my time and promptly deleted it from my hard drive. Fuck this game. One Star is far more than it deserves.
