Oh, for sure. And it successfully makes me react and feel things too. As each level progresses, I find myself discovering several different aspects of the protagonist’s personality that makes me not care for her more and more. Not in a disliking sort of way, more in a “I don’t identify with this person at all” sort of way.
One example: As you unpack her things, you keep finding stuff in boxes where they don’t belong. Like a t-shirt in a kitchen box or something. And to me that suggest a scatterbrained and messy person, a personality trait which I have a hard time dealing with in real-life.
And already having that impression, I then couldn’t help feel sorry for her boyfriend later on. Based on his apartment, he’s clearly a neat, organized person. And suddenly he’s gonna have to deal with all this mess and clutter. Poor guy, hopefully he loves her enough that it doesn’t bother him too much.
It’s an OK game, but I found it a little too one-note in terms of its puzzle mechanic. Nice presentation though. Hopefully it evolves and reinvents itself as it progresses.
Yeah, I played that Day 1 when it dropped on Game Pass. On that first sitting, I ended up spending an hour or two (it’s easy to lose track of time in there) and it kind of surprised me how entertained I was. I don’t know that I’d call it fun, necessarily, but it’s kind of like how I remember building Legos was when I was a kid. Zen-like, allowing your imagination some room to play.