The early game is hellish, the characters are obnoxious and ungrateful (with a couple of exceptions), every quest is a chain of deals with about 3-5 steps which are usually scuttled by having to wait for specific characters to be available on specific days, and after all the torture nothing meaningful is resolved in the end. You learn a lot about the history of the NPCs but they've acted so rudely that I sincerely don't care about their complex and tragic past. I know other people enjoy this game but I can't for the life of me understand why. Stick to Stardew, Harvest Moon, Song of Seasons- anything but this mean-spirited prank of a 'cozy farm simulator'. To its credit though, after the early game hell, the gameplay loop is kind of okay and the water physics are nice.
The music is a bit loud and can overtake the dialogue. Some of the puzzles were a little annoying- some I figured out before the game thought I was ready so I had to do some esoteric clicking before it unlocked the solution I had already figured out, and others were so subtle I had to check a walkthrough, but on the whole? A great premise, great characters, I'd like Joey to have a more Film Noir accent but I'll take what I can get.
