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Hmm, solid start. Renders have a polished look, no wonky poses or body parts clipping through. Obviously making the effort to get it looking good. I'll also give Smugger credit that often there is interesting visual framing in scenes beyond the same angles. Dialogue is also pretty flowing, no weird grammar or misspellings. All this makes me pretty certain that this game is definitely going to be good. As even this demo looks properly finished.
That said, the demo is maybe a little too packed trying to show a little bit of everything. I think it's too frenetic, jumping multiple times back in time and then to the present again. Dumping a ton of characters on the viewer all at once got confusing, a bit more time to cement the main group of 5 before another 6 got added to the roster. Telling who was talking at the school when you don't know anyone was a bit difficult. I hope that once more content is done things will get reordered to flow smoother. The initial investigators being captured also seemed disconnected, as they aren't related to any of the main characters story yet. Seeing what happens to the investigators followed almost immediately by the same thing happening to Vanessa and Lucy kind of lessens the impact.