It’s an interesting setting and opening you have here. New Oldport and Tuesday and time not flowing as it usually does. I don’t know what’s going on exactly, but there’s a consistency to its logic. (Have you read Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled? I’m reminded of that. Particularly in the way that Sam (Jet? the boar) is a polite guide-butler. I like that he has a distinct way of speaking.) The backgrounds are also good at evoking a dreamy, surreal feeling.
There’s something familiar in the dinner conversations with Sam and Phil. 5G and vaccine conspiracy theories and talk of leaving reviews. It’s grounding in a place that’s so foreign. I like how they flirt, leaving these subtle invitations for Brady. And the line with Phil about tenderly tearing a piece of meat off as he eats. It’s an interesting turn of phrase. And it’s interesting how Sam is ostensibly the guest, but is offering help with the ice machine as if he was the worker and not Brady. These are details that make me want to keep reading.
Unfortunately, I could not keep reading, and I think it’s due to bugs rather than the game not having been written past that point, since the game was hanging on Phil’s “All one of them” or Brady’s “I do” in the post-dinner conversation with Jeremy. I enjoyed what I saw, though.