Wow, this game leaves a deep impression. The beautifully atmospheric music and the incredibly distinct Game Boy x 90s PC-like hand-drawn graphics and colour palette completely engross you into the world and really make you feel like you're just spacing out in an a timeless alternate dimension as you play the game. All the character designs are extremely appealing and befit the lo-fi look so excellently, that even though the number of frames used is quite small I simply never got tired of looking at the same image for hours on end. Story-wise, this was definitely not the type of mystery I had expected at first, and I did leave with a handful of unanswered questions, but it was genuinely fun to learn about the impressively fleshed-out world of the game.

Albeit left with a super messy toilet roll dropped more times than I have or ever will drop a toilet roll in my life, overall, I enjoyed this peculiar one-man Switch project that even 7 years in stands out as one of the most inventive uses of the Joycon to date. It often presents a real challenge, which by the end I found amplified by the extra traction on my ravaged toilet roll and the exhaustion from moving the heavy box that was the only suitable surface I found, yet the simple satisfaction of completing precise manoeuvres in overcoming imprecise controls encouraged me to persevere. The world needs more creative and experimental games like this.