An extremely well-written and compelling story with a super endearing art direction, in which Shu Takumi finally proves himself capable of writing actual characters that aren't just one-note stereotypes. Mostly animals. He writes animals very well.
The central mystery kept me hooked for the entire 11 hours that this game took to beat.

I personally didn't love the gameplay that much and found one half of the puzzles pitifully easy, while the other half was mostly trial-and-error (the game literally says so), forcing you to watch the same long cutscenes multiple times while you wait to do "that one thing" at the very end of the Rube-Goldberg machine.
I can respect how much they did with this incredibly simple one-button concept though, and the occasional gameplay switch-ups were a nice change of pace. Has a very "indie game structure" that is hard to explain with words. Not something you would expect from Capcom.

Moral of the story: Pomeranians fucking rule.