"Let my ass be pure. I maintain that so long as one does no harm, God views the curtailment of one's freedom as the gravest offense. True kindness must spring forth from the free will, for all else is but a façade. Doth my pursuit of women offend the divine? Nay, for did not He fashion those very behinds?"

Great use of presentation and games as a medium to convey this story, some bugs aside. The religious themes are going to hit and miss depending on where you're at in life, though.

When I was an edgy budding athiest at 16 I would have loved this. But now I'm almost 30 and have consumed a lot of movies and books that hit these themes and questions with varying degrees of subtlety, so seeing them here feels a little overdone and not adding much to that conversation.

The game itself, however, does a lot with the medium to convey narrative. It borrows a few cinematic ideas, sure, but it's not too stuck in trying to mimic a worse version of a film the way others of have done over the years, and uses interactivity to convey ideas in a way that wouldn't work as well in film.

Can't wait to see how this game will inspire future developers!

I played this in high school on a trip to DC and I remember more about this game than our nation's capital.

Took 13 years but I finally beat the co-op campaign

Shoutout to every VO performer that said every line in this game, verbatim, without cracking.

Obviously, there was no better solution to all this. No notes!

I hope the marionette loved my play

How many Steam Decks did they have to sell to pay J.K. Simmons for this?

Legally a puzzle game, spiritually a vibes game

This game burns my retinas and that's just fine

2023

Idealized in parts, but definitely hits home as a Be Nicer To Your Mother Simulator