The first game, counted here as the demo, presents a lot of really interesting concepts - aliens, futuristic dystopia, the world ending in some way, all of it with good art and a rather humorous touch - and then kind of tosses all of it aside in favor of a completely unrelated story about a god of another world accessible in a TV. It ends up being kinda unsatisfying as a result - creating a whole other mystery that it still doesn’t solve, instead of solving any of the mysteries that it presented to begin with. I decided to try to play the sequel, because I had hoped that this sequel would clarify and explain some of the mysteries that caused me to leave the first game feeling unsatisfied, but…if anything it just compounded all of the problems I had even more. I constantly got the feeling that this game was trying to be deep, but I honestly couldn’t tell. So many aspects of it are confusing, and even the parts I managed to figure out weren’t terribly satisfying. Ultimately, a lot of it feels like it’s just weird, surreal, and edgy for the sake of being weird, surreal and edgy, with a million conflicting ideas present at once, many of which aren’t very well explained. It also lacks a lot of the humor of the first game, and feels very overlong. Which is a shame, because there are interesting ideas within it - for instance, I’d frankly have preferred a game about Bennet’s optionally-viewable backstory to the game I actually played, because it had a lot of great potential (as well as coherence the actual game seemed to lack), and I found myself more invested in that than the characters of the main story. I know there’s a third game, but I don’t really want to play it - especially since I’d have to pay for an experience there’s a good chance I won’t like.

(Also, is Charlotte trans? It seemed like Charlotte was being presented as trans, which I thought was cool, but then it seemed like it backpedaled on that, which was kind of disappointing.)

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