wanted to love this, instead i just like it. it's well-written and thought provoking (to an extent), with good to great voice acting and the sheer breadth of branching paths is staggering, but the limitedness of the "5 paths per playthrough" really kills my desire to get into every possibility. i want to see all of it but even more than that i REALLY don't want to keep track of 200 different combinations of possible choices, especially when some of them are 3 or 4 other branching paths deep and you may not even know if you can make a different choice or what it will even look like until you spend half an hour getting there

in the end i feel like the story wants to be about more than it is, i don't want to be rude because maybe this is deeply personal for the people who made it (i kind of assume it is) but it just doesn't get "there" in the same way games like disco elysium or pentiment do, "there" being a place where the story convinces me it understands what it's even trying to say