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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.

Don´t read about this game, just play it. Don´t look at let´s plays. Just take your time and enjoy every minute of it!

I'll admit up-front that RPG games, or whatever this is, aren't my cuppa. DE reminds me of a GUI wrapper around and old text adventure of the verb-noun type. Have Headache. Buy medicine. No Money. Get bottles. No bag. Get bag. Get bottles. Get money. Get medicine. Get out. Go insane. Hooboi we be adulting now! I didn't make it any further than that because that's about the time the narrarator's voice began to sound patronizing. Game throws in adult stuffs for color, a discriminator. It probably tested well with the snickering 14-year-old market. It does succeed at being bleak and conveying a sense of hopelessness that was in equivalent portions to the fun I was having playing. Playing DE is not so much a fun distraction as it is a chore. A tedious one you did back in the 80's. But the art was cool. Go west. Open door. Leave.

Biggest disappointment of the season, Pretentious. Also, free choice never seems like free choice. And playing this masterpiece of boredom twice would indeed be a tough punishment.

Better read a book