I'll start this off by first saying, the game is by no means awful, but it's not finished. I enjoyed the game and my several playthroughs investigating the different story branches but each playthrough I learned more that was displeasing that I wouldn't have seen had I not played several times. The first is that many mechanics the game teaches you slowly trail off and are never used again, which felt like it gave a lot more love to the games intro and a lot less to later scenes and there was no need to remember any mechanics which I guess could also be spun as a positive? Because there were no mechanics to learn. Some of the side quests were left unfinished or ended without tying up the story, this could have been done on purpose because I recall the developer saying they had plans for a second game but that is actually a huge issue to me because it means they purposefully withheld content and made the game unfinished in order to capitalise with a second market, meaning this was akin to a test run or beta or even early access you could say at which point it wasn't worth the buy. You couldn't enjoy the full story, many things remain unexplained prompting a requirement to buy the second entry which in my eyes is coercive and similar to tripple AAA companies in that they've prioritised greed over quality and consumer experince was never the interest. The game wasn't bad, I actually think many more will enjoy it, especially since it comes from a smaller studio. But we have enough developers already who cut corners and lazily push out whatever they can and I won't endorse someone going the same direction. We need to rebuild the industry on trust and quality content but that means giving praise and criticism as equally necessary
