It's wittingly written, and that's what saved it for me when it got to a slog. Anyway, this is my little rant, because there's more than enough praise about it elsewhere.

I think the game would've benefited from some kind of ever-present option to just sit down and talk things out, instead of shoving a bunch of violent actions at me. Well, the first time around anyway. I was getting chewed up and spat out for my first three or four loops, just immediately out the door, getting killed left and right. Sure, some routes let you sit down and chat, but that didn't help me when I apparently went down all the snappy and action-filled routes initially.

During that segment where the Narrator forces you to stab the Princess, me using the arrow keys to pick a choice falsely made me believe there was no other choice than [Slay the Princess]. Turns out, only mouse scrolling down the list can show the singular [Resist] option. Why can't the arrow keys scroll the list? Infuriating!! Maybe this was why I felt so done with the game for a good while... And The Prisoner, who was behind the [Resist] route, turned out to be my favorite.

During the ending, slaying the Princess is such a weird choice. Isn't it completely insane to take away death? That means taking away love, feeling, anything that carries meaning. Siding with the Shifting Mound seemed like the infinitely better choice, but that was also not exactly riveting storytelling... And my ending of choice, of facing it together, went to credits as soon as it happened. I don't know what I expected, but there's more to be told here, please...

When you have two characters who essentially don't know much about anything, who exist in a literal void, and then write a whole game around them, I think the lack of narrative satisfaction I'm feeling here is a byproduct of that.

... Don't look at me that way. Yeah, maybe I should just go and play a dating sim instead if chatting's all that interests me!