okay... genuinely, how the fuck did i not review this game before? i love it. it's so good. it's very tedious and i will knock it down for being a bit unfair or unfun sometimes (paralysis ailment hitting me every 15 seconds no joke? dunno what happened there still.) but it's so good. the story drives me insane. i read the manga because i didn't understand it, but now i do and now i feel like my mind is exploding. go play it, it really is worth it. beautiful themes about struggling with religion, survivor's guilt, trauma, and queerness. baroque is a very queer game, that's barely subtle. if you didn't see it then whatever but yeah. it was definitely there. there's a large element of transgenderism in this story.