A game of soaring highs and absolutely soul-crushing lows. Some runs genuinely just feel insanely unfair due to just being fucked by the games RNG over and over again. There's only so much skill I can have before me winning or losing feels completely out of my hands. I really love how this game feels to play, the music is fantastic and I like the strange cosmic imagery, but I've been trying to hit credits since on and off this came out and I've never managed it. I came SO close this time but, admittedly, fucked it up. The story isn't really hitting for me either, I like an abstract vibes-based narrative but this is so obtuse that it almost comes off as obnoxious. After like 20 hours, Selene constantly spouting bizarre gibberish in logs just gets a little grating. ALSO, and maybe this contributed a fair bit to me dropping this again, but the PC port of this is pretty terrible. Constant microstuttering in a fast-paced game is so god damn annoying (and kinda nauseating), and I've had a couple of game breaking bugs that have seemingly just never been patched out.

Oh well. I will probably once again come back to this and try (and most likely fail) to beat it at some point in the future, but I've gotten almost right to the end and the story isn't enough for me to want to keep going through it all again.