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✅ funny moments
✅ cool monsters & weapons
✅ quick & fluid world load times
✅ revivability (not dead all game)
❌ emoji mascot

The moment the game gave me SIG Sauer P226 and told to me to attack Takeda clan, I got a flashback to my history lesson about 16th century Japan.

Really good learning resource for anyone interested in Japanese history or wanting to learn more about Yasuke. 10/10

*BEFORE YOU BUY*

Understand that this is a story game about trauma and feelings of inadequacy in the framework of a cozy game. This is not a cozy game where you achieve all your goals. This is therapy, not catharsis. You will regularly have to face the simple truth that you cannot optimize gameplay. You can't "level up" and get better results. There's no growing in skill. This is about rest and healing. Not figuring out the shortcuts. The more you fight against this, the less you will enjoy this game.

And it is a game. I really enjoy it. I think there's interesting mechanics I've never seen before. I like them. There is an endless supply of things to do like sweeping and weeding. You'll never "finish" doing all the things. Just like you'll never "finish" brushing your teeth, or doing laundry. This is the game trying to communicate that there are things not in your control. You don't get to decide to eliminate weeds as a thing that happens. Just like you don't get to decide whether or not you'll need to take out the garbage.

This game is bitter medicine.
But it IS medicine... but...
it is bitter.

This game won't lie to you and tell you that the world makes sense or that you can preserve something forever. It's not going to give you vapid achievements that encourage you to collect 100 seeds. It treats you like an adult who doesn't need keys jangled in front of you to keep you amused. It's a unique narrative you'll never see anywhere else. And it requires a game to experience. This game, like Davey Wreden's other works, cannot be translated to film or novel.

I appreciate that this game respects me, and is made from a place of love. This game landed exactly where it was aiming. And that is something I almost never see in game makers today. Applaud this game.