beautiful soundtrack, stunning scenic art style, engaging and effectively-tuned puzzles. the story starts in a compelling manner, at least initially only doling out minimal information in a way that caught my interest, but it lost me in the end

think of it like gently building a fire using flint and light kindling, the sparks get going, a tiny flame begins to catch, and then instead of gradually encouraging it with some small twigs, you just toss a log onto it, and it extinguishes

basically, very backloaded. and not captured in the metaphor: twisty in a way that doesn't feel earned because it's so backloaded