This game is so in love with its own belly-button gazing it forgot to be a game. It tries WAY too hard to be cool and edgy and different that it just fails at being interesting, fun, or entertaining. It was annoying to play, painful to endure, and frankly I can't imagine having so much time on my hands that I would punish myself by playing this game again. On the pro-side: the voice acting is exemplary. Kudos to the actors. (Side note to the production team: if you're going to make a game that's all about navel-gazing and want to use really big off-the-beaten-path words, at least let your voice actors know how to pronounce them properly. You did a great job with the pseudo-French pronunciations and accents but dropped the ball on the vocabulary.) On the puzzling side: why does a game with such a ridiculously simple interface and small areas to explore have such LOOOONG load times? I remember games that looked so much better that used 2-D tech (Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate, etc.) from 20 years ago that ran better than this. While computing power is orders of magnitude faster now, apparently the code for this game is orders of magnitude less efficient. The graphics for this game are horrible. Sure, I realize it is "stylized", which in this case just means scribbled on the back of a bar napkin with a dull crayon. At the end of the day, I don't understand how this game won any awards (except for voice acting). Avoid this game, unless you feel the need to punish yourself for many hours.
