I heard a lot of good things about this game over the years, and I feel like they were all undeserved. Other than the impressive (for the time) graphics, which still hold up pretty well in the redux version, this game has nothing to offer, either in terms of gameplay or storytelling. The FMVs are charming, but the underlying plot is not a particularly interesting or clever one.
The gameplay is rudimentary, you can only move around to interact with the environment (by bumping into objects). In the game you'll play as a cockroach (or rather a human turned into one) and you'll navigate each screen to the next while avoiding the hazards here and there. Most of the times, you'll have to push items around to get past obstacles. A few of the "puzzles" are nicely designed, but the game has long chunks of nothing happening, and what little interaction there is quickly becomes repetitive. The nice graphics are also detrimental here, because getting confused as to what you can walk on and what not is fairly common.
The story is inspired by Kafka's metamorphosis, to an extent, but when you go for such oniric, surreal plots, you'd better have the extra talent to make them worthwhile, and this really doesn't show any genius. I am sure most will find the story predictable, and the long sessions of "gameplay" in-between to do a disservice to it as well. I say "long", but the game can be completed in under 2 hours, if you know what you are doing, so once you take away all the little annoyances which get in the way the first time around, you are left with a really short, barely there game. For all its quirkiness, the story is just mundane, the only slightly original part is in how it's delivered.
The overall presentation is good, but that's not enough to save the game. I am honest when I say this game is probably better watched on youtube, and only if you are desperately intrigued by the premise. The presentation is also the only reason this gets 2 stars instead of 1.