This game's opening act is nothing short of jaw-dropping. It's fun, kinetic, and horribly visceral, always finding new ways to make my synapses fire and my skin crawl. By itself, the opening act is flawless to me.

And then it stops.
I like the second act as well, in fairness. It innovates on the existing format in interesting ways, and the genre shift had my attention! The third act, however, was and is an absolute slog. I understand that that's on purpose, narratively, but that doesn't make it any more fun to sit through. It pains me to shelve this game, because for the 6 hours I played it, it had a hell of a grip on me. But at this point, the only thing motivating me to pick it back up and gun it for the finish line is that I want to stream it for friends—and that the first act awaits me once I can finally create a new save.