Golly gee is this game an experience. A wide ARG style story about an N64 game pulled from shelves. When it works, it's amazing, forward thinking, and genuinely horrific. However, the game has an addiction to jumpscares, so much so it eventually became exhausting for me to play. There's some very good puzzle sections that are ruined by the way the enemy encounters are setup. and in the endgame "hide and seek" section, i was yelling obscenities at my screen from how much hoopla the game was tossin at me, spawning 3 of the 5 monsters on top of me and having the other 2 walk into the tiny room im in and do circles for 5 minutes isnt fun, and they have far too wide of an agrro range for it to be fun to avoid them, and whenever you're seen(not caught, just seen) you get jumpscared. I probably missed out on a lot of great lore from the game's voicemail things because frankly i had to have my volume so incredibly low at all times because the jumpscares are super loud and got me to throw and almost break my headphones in shock multiple times :( i love everything this game wants to be and is trying to do but it annoys me to hell and back in it's latter half. It's still worth your time though. Whatever yhe dev makes after this i can gurantee will be amazing and worth checking out. This is just a prelude to something truly great, i can feel it.

I strangely remember so much about my experience playing this game despite it being so long ago. I remember how it spoke to me creatively, I remember all the story beats. And yet I know things recently that i've watched and played that I will definitely go on to forget most of in a short time after seeing it. I guess that makes this game something special. It's ideations on creating things and having someone else experience them kind of just really hits a chord? I just wish i'd stop putting lampposts in my games, if you catch my drift.