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A short and unsettling experience about mental illness and suicide. Very odd, very effective.

Not too much to describe here, since there is only 15 minutes of actual game. I do think more could have been done with the TV's in the corner of the room (which don't tie into the environment as neatly as all the other environmental ephemera). Also, most of the game's story around the painting is found in one room. I would have preferred more of a breadcrumb trail across a series of rooms to describe the painting so that the story has more time to unravel but its hard to fault the games' brevity, which is a core strength of the experience.

Very effective overall, reminding me of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in its dark, lonely simplicity, but with a more wry sense of humor and with more shock value.

Reviewed on Aug 31, 2023


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