an absolutely beautiful Zelda-meets-Fez isometric adventure that wonderfully evokes the spirit (if not the actual letter) of what I imagine the experience of playing old-school games without a walkthrough handy on the Internet must have been back in the day. I don't think it's perfect by any means - I do wish that the developer hadn't gone for Soulslike combat (even with the accessibility settings that remove any challenge from combat, it's still annoying) and that there had been more non-meta environmental puzzles; there's also no denying that it can be too cryptic for its own good, and the central late-game puzzle mechanic isn't really to my taste and led me not to bother getting the true ending. But what it does well - the feeling of exploring that beautiful world with its amazing art direction, searching for hidden secrets in nooks and crannies, looking for clues in the manual - is too good for me not to recommend it.