So much potential that comes through sporadically. Visually striking and well-acted, there's a lot I enjoyed but that's what makes the shortcomings so frustrating. The light puzzle-solving gameplay is fine, I didn't hate it, but I just wanted to get past it most of the time. The narrative is the obvious draw, and I did enjoy it—it's pretty basic philosophy and religious critique but when it dips into surrealism I was into it. All that said it's still interesting and more memorable than a lot of the things I've played lately. I just wanted more weird shit and more depth to the commentary.

The humor and writing was very hit or miss for me which is a hard thing to get over in a game that puts its comedy at the forefront. The voice acting is good across the board and does a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of making some of the weaker jokes land a bit more, but the main character really grated on my nerves (she's a very specific type of precocious wisecracking kid character that I just cannoooot stand).

The Papers Please-lite gameplay is nothing special but I did like the feeling that I was watching a cartoon with some easy puzzle solving thrown in every now and then. I can't help but like this game at least a little bit, if I had found it funnier I think I would have been really into this! As it is, I appreciated it as a short, not too challenging experience with bright cartoon visuals and a constant stream of jokes to satisfy my brain, long rotted by short form videos of people making slime and crushing stuff in a hydraulic press