Started this game curious--the premise was interesting, the game play simple but still compelling enough to feel like I was playing something rather than just clicking through pages.

The music evoked the same feelings I had the first time I watched Blade Runner. The aesthetic brought me back to being a kid, cracking open my first manga--summoning the ghostly memories of the smell of VHS tapes and the sensation of scratchy carpet beneath me as I stared upwards at a portal into another world through the boxy lens and thin lines of dreams imprinted on magnetic tape.

It gripped me--an old obsession somewhat neglected, speaking of traveling into distant stars and escaping the shackles of this decaying world for those of another. Rebel dreams of rising against an evil I was too young to realize was so much worse than what I was shown.

The writing is gripping but human--somehow, it all becomes personal if you're willing to let it in. I grimaced at failures and sighed with relief when things actually worked out--I just didn't want to stop until I saw these goals, these stories reach their conclusion, good or bad I had to know.

And when I finished, I said nothing--pressed nothing. It was such a beautiful pain I wished it to linger as long as it could. I felt like I had a conversation with a long forgotten friend only to watch them vanish once more.

This game hurts you in all the best ways. I encourage you to go in as blind as you can and just...lose yourself.