This is a great game. It requires some patience and reflection, but the payback is just priceless. I also find it philosophically challenging: you can't avoid relating the shade's experience with the human experience. The shade just finds itself in a world it does not know, does not understand and where its goal in life is completely unfathomable. The only thing it knows is that it needs to wait for its time to pass by, finding gratification in meaningless things like decorating its home. As every human, the shade feels desperately lonely and purposeless. However, it still finds ways to live with its condition and look for adventure and hope. If the player is particularly adventurous, the shade will find itself digging into its own loneliness and darkness, in a desperate attempt to try to overcome them. However, as perfectly stated in the game, "each triumph may be a veiled defeat. And for each defeat, there is a hidden triumph, lingering in the dark".
