I love being spooked and I love tall goth women who will literally kill me. This is the first game to combine both of those so expertly.

Objectively, this is probably a 2.5 or 3 star game. But I played 80 hours of it in release week, so I can't in good conscience rate it any lower than this.

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I hate this fucking game. If you're stupid enough to think that baby's first SEP article repackaged as the most trope-filled anime bullshit plotline of all time is actually profound and beautiful, then you will love this game. Somehow. Despite the fact that the gameplay is miserable, the story structure is a time-wasting slog, the world is so bland and ugly that I forgot that colors other than grey and brown existed while playing this game, and the characters feel like they were written by someone who has never interacted with humans before in their life. If that's your cup of tea, then great. I just don't get it.

God fucking damn, there are SO many games that have good philosophical themes and ideas behind them and literally all of them are better! But this game was made for absolute blithering idiots who don't know what a theme is unless the main character stands the fuck up, looks straight at the screen, announces that they are about to tell you the theme of the game, then regurgitates a bunch of lines straight from the wikipedia article on Existentialism run through Google Translate three or four times.

Fuck. This game sucks. I truly hate it. Banger soundtrack, though, so it gets more than 1 star.