A lot to say that I don’t here and I’m at work rn so this is fairly rambly but game’s cool. I love the Saga stuff, it feels like you really are trapped in this world as everything moulds around you and the people act vague and uncanny. This particular story being about the real world but having it change itself gives the game a unique tone where it still feels like this is a grounded and real world, but one that you still feel out of place in. The whole thing of solving this mystery within the mystery and using that mystery to solve your mystery is really cool!

With Alan though it feels a lot more confused I’d say? It seems to want to say things about art and artists and everything but never quite hit for me in the way I think it wanted to? The plot in Alan’s sections also don’t have the line of logic you can attach yourself to with Saga’s story, there you’re putting the pieces together yourself to solve a grounded question of “who is behind the cult and its murders” you just answer that through all the crazy stuff, with Alan though I never really understood what he was doing or why? Alan would say “I’m going to go talk to Mr Door” so I’d think “ok I guess we’re talking to Mr Door”. I forgive him for this though because the actor for Alan’s cute and these sections are similarly drenched in atmosphere, with the city feeling really dead and lonely. I like the stealth in these bits! It can get a bit much but the vagueness of the taken’s detection, the fact they’re just everywhere and that they’ll see your flashlight gives the game that underlying sense of tension and nervousness without turning it into a full stealth game.