Delivered on the promise of "having the same composer as Celeste". Overall a little eye-rolley over the "we need to stop gatekeeping art education" theme of the whole game because I in fact didn't go to art school, but I think it handles well and I do like the literalization of "changing the world through art" by literally painting on the world, but I don't think it really lands that well, I wish that rather than just painting (which, ironically, DOESN'T actually change the world except superficially, which is the opposite of the narrative of the game). Character design and world design are both amazing. Overall love!

I will say... Fluxus would've loved this games messaging.

To paraphrase the lengthy voice memo I left to myself through hiccuping sobs from the ending, maybe the best game to completely land a 100% lining up of gameplay and narrative since Celeste. Overall everything was incredible; I was worried going in because the most intense response I'd heard going in was "I cried so much" and oftentimes people say that about incredibly heavy-handed and annoying pieces of media. HOWEVER this lands with such an intense and mundane impact that you kind of feel your face and realize you've been crying for the last hour just because of the profound honesty and truth of it.