hoping in the coming year to educate myself more in adventure games!! i dont quite have the internal or external vocabulary to talk indepth about them yet i dont think but this is certainly one of the most enjoyable ive yet experienced. my understanding is that if theres any Skill that one can Hone to get better adventure games, its not just logical thinking or even lateral thinking, but to slowly form an intuitive sensitivity to the genre's rhythms, taking clues from convention and tone and other precedents to comprehend the moon logic a particular title is likely to invoke. im definitely not far enough in that yet to make it through them consistently without assistance (this one was generally approachable to me but i didnt feel any guilt using a guide when my stubbornness run out), but theres a reason why Context and Vibes are so important to these games. and this ones definitely got something vivid in its fun and cartoony world of kitsch and color , with a seedy underbelly of apathy and lowkey sadism...i hope nobody was on that bus!