Catherine

It was fun, a reasonable challenge for a puzzle game. The story and characters are okay, the style is cool, but unfortunately the game has terrible and at times frustrating controls that caused more than half the failed attempts.

The central puzzle gameplay is pretty good (there shouldn't be lives, but they stop mattering pretty quick) and there's some interesting character moments. But this game does not have even a tiny fraction of the insight into gender and relationships it thinks it has. The ideas about men, women, and the relationship thereof that it's trying to be About are a puffed-up echo of everything toxic masculinity is already telling us. Vincent is kinda terrible, and the game needs to realize that already!

I'm too dumb for most puzzle games but the box climbing worked for me. But it wasn't really the puzzling that makes this game great, it's the story and the choices you make. The art style and the silliness/darkness of it all is inspired and admirable.

I give this a reluctant recommendation. If you love puzzles, then this game could easily be a 4/5, but if you don't you at least get an interesting story that tackles an interesting topic few video games have attempted to tackle before, and you can set the game mode to very easy to skip the puzzles. Only gripes with the story is that the two polar opposite pure outcomes feel hackneyed, while the ostensibly "undesirable" neutral ending is actually the most interesting of the bunch.

Woo, pervy anime and block climbing, the perfect combo

Felt like a pervert.