As a friend of a friend of the author, and the writer of the first review for the game on this site, I feel some responsibility to try particular hard to sell it well. Unfortunately for me, the core appeal is naturally in the quality of the writing, and I don't have the vocabulary to compliment that in a way that doesn't sound generic. Fortunately for us all, it is in fact, very good - emotionally touching, thematically resonant, deeply intriguing, and with highly appealing, distinct and memorable characters.

Given the restrictions placed upon the game by the scope of its budget, the presentation is fairly impressive as well, making the most of the tools available to include good-looking character designs, and employing the game's music effectively - in particular, I can't stop thinking about the game's haunting main theme, and that's in large part due to finding the right music with the right tone and deploying it at the right moments.