Has a nice minimalist visual style and atmosphere, and I liked the growing relationship between the leading women (plus the fact that is is leading women, and bipoc!), but its adherence to the style of montage in movies quickly becomes a weakness that doesn't really work with the mechanisms of the game. Too often I found myself staring at something in the character's hand wondering why the camera was stuck on it before it cut to another scene where I was staring at another thing. An editing of continuity, it works beautifully in cinema, but here it's done too slowly and the first staring moment always takes long enough to make you think something is wrong.

Also the minimalism and lack of direction in the UI means that I was often confused as to what I was supposed to look at and click on, meaning the precision of the cinematic style was lost on me because there was no precision at all almost every time I got control of the character.

The story also goes off the rails in a way that feels like the game doesn't understand how bureaucracy and conspiracy actually work in real life. I did like the scenes with the lead’s father and how she reacts to his “gift”, but besides that by the final drug-fuelled montage I was just done with the game (and it’s just ludicrous that she does decide to take drugs there, but oh well).

Very disappointed in this game. A nice idea that they didn’t manage to make work.

Reviewed on May 21, 2023


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