answering the questions in the end
Overall opinion:
this was quite a delight to play, amazing atmosphere, feels like that game another world, with some heavy rain investigation vibe.
2 things I like:
- atmosphere, absolutely, visuals and soundtrack and sounds, just perfect
- control scheme (feels like signalis and old resident evil games)
2 things that perhaps could go better
- exposition in text (perhaps the player for this kind of game won't mind if things are left vaguely explained, so perhaps there is no need to use much exposition in text)
- in the ending I was starting to think the plot could go towards somewhat tropy directions (the thing about living in virtual worlds and all, feels already a bit ... "nothing new here" vibes)
but man I gotta say this was delitious to play and I definitely want to see more ... ideally I would love to be absolutely surprised by it all and would love to see it being unfamiliar (minimal usage of tropes), vague (minimal usage of exposition) and just as visually amazing as it currently already is .. just like signalis with another world.