Flat-out one of the most fascinating and compelling demonstrations of how videogames excel best narratively when they treat the medium as a concept extension of real world art installations. Easily up on the shelf along with Kentucky Route Zero, Bad Day on the Midway, and Crawling Angels in how deftly it uses basic, essential interactivity to create a series of experiential moods and atmospheres by allowing the player to move through and immerse themselves within finely tuned set-pieces.

The stamping sequence alone does a better job at using interactivity to mimic a character's mindset than a massive amount of AAA and indie games alike which love to erode narrative impact by obfuscating it behind reams of moving parts and constant asides. Are gaming stories really improved by the repetitive motions surrounding them. It seems that we have just thoughtlessly accepted fragmental, inchoate pacing as an inherent component of videogames.

If we can consider "less is more" as a fairly reliable axiom, it stands to reason that this applies likewise for videogames.

The real potential of gaming as an interactivity narrative medium doesn't lie within overwrought mechanics and experiences defined by gameplay loops; it lies within its ability to take what used to be consigned to museums and college campuses - interactive art installations - and bring them to the home. I've never felt that videogames were a "new" medium, but rather an opportunity to accomplish what was only possible before through those occasional, ephemeral visits to limited venues.
The absolute most basic, the most central element of videogames is the ability to move through space, to manipulate a facsimile, no other attribute comes close to being as defining, and when developers work to master and amplify the most fundamental aspect of the medium, the result is the same as it is in any other artform, you create some far purer, of much greater aesthetic coherency; no enormous clockwork array of irrelevant details to weigh it down.

Great story, beautiful game, with a complex tableau of atmospheres and moods; all there so you have the opportunity to be truly transported.

its actually a pretty good game, The story is cool but kinda confusing sometimes so u’ll probably have to look stuff up to fully get it. Rachel’s part was the one that hit me the most ma gurl went thro a lot </3

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