All those groundbreaking game mechanics and nothing to do with them. What a shame. I love the abstract art style, and its general unfiltered trippiness - but that's about the extent of nice things I can say about this. Got ruined (in large part) by the age of the game theory - where every one of these offbeat, colorful horror games has to have piles of shitty esoteric lore that people on YouTube make 45 minute videos analyzing yet not actually say anything about. So what could have been a lean, trailblazing stealth-platforming horror game is instead littered with purposefully incoherent portent which I could accept if it didn't halt the core gameplay in its tracks, and wasn't so unrealistically obtuse that you pretty much have to look up a walkthrough for it because who the hell would think of these stupidass solutions? Pointlessly cryptic to the point where the game just became tedious even in spite of its flickers of strong moments, at its best when you're breaking it beyond belief.

Reviewed on Aug 10, 2022


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