I got a bit carried away with this comment, sorry for that
first of all, to get this out of the way, the artistic style is great, so is the music, and the audio design is exelent
I really can't express well what I experienced, its incredible the amount of emotion that can be packed in 20 minutes of gameplay, I cried like a little bitch and even started sweating a little bit at the end, its a tipe of horror I've never experienced before
When I consume media I don't like to say a depiction of depression is ¨better¨ than other one, as everyone experiences it in a different way, but it always bothers me how a lot of the time it only depicts the parts that are more ¨fashionable¨, to the point that it can feel hollow and incompleat at times, this game really touches into that part of depression it isnt normally talked about and for that reason it truthly speaked to me in a way most if the other stuff can't
I couldn't stop staring at the screen even tho it hurt seeing the main character do the stuff she did, but at the same time you can see how someone in that state of mind would do such things, and when she does it really hurts,it truthly makes you care for her even though you just met her
If I must say one thing I didn't liked is the noodle minigame, I'm pretty shoure it's meant to be frustrating, but it gets progresivley more difficult and at the end I took so much time to beat it it kinda disrupted the flow of gamplay (or maybe I'm just bad at games idk), so I think it could've been handeled a bit better (tho one curious thing that happened to me that I doubt was intentional is that while spamming spacebar my hand tendons started to hurt, wich is streangly themetic)
That is really the only flaw I see in this game, apart from that its a perfect game, it really acomplishes what it wants to do and makes you feel what it wants to make you feel
I dont do this often but I think I'll recoment it to some of my friends, its that good