I forgot how beautiful this game is. Clearly, so much work was put into properly rendering these frozen-in-time scenes. I love the way water and rain is depicted in the 1-bit style. The kraken is overwhelmingly scary. And goddamn that lightning.

The smash cut from the black dialogue cards to the death scene are so powerful. Listening to the sounds of violence before getting slammed into a gruesome scene is viscerally effective. Combined with the amazing VA, sound design, and music, it feels so good to just walk around every scene, piecing together the movement of every object.

Anyway, a coworker once told me he gave up on it cause "the graphics were ugly" and I just don't know how I'm supposed to live on the same planet as that shit.