I really liked Alum's Strata Gems so I went in with high expectations, but I won't lie, this game frustrated me a lot. The concept of the mechanics is brilliant, but their behaviour can be pretty janky, which made it harder to understand the solutions, especially when the solutions involved said jank (why does dangling Kisume from a rock place her lower down than dangling her from a beetle??). Combined with having to constantly reset to checkpoints, it made it quite a slog to get through, I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to solve the first puzzle and got really mad every time I had to reset and move all of those rocks out the way. I don't want to be all negative, there were several good puzzles as well, but in the end I had to watch a stream of someone who played the game to figure out the last 2 puzzles.
I feel the more obscure ways to use the string (like how it can pull things off the floor by attaching to something higher up) could have been first used in a basic context before asking the player to apply them in more complicated puzzles. And less jank please, idk why you have to dangle Kisume from a rock in that first puzzle when attaching her to the beetle looks the same but gets you a different result.
Anyway, I hope you found my feedback constructive and not too negative.
