Waited a bit to see how the game shapes up in terms of content before playing, and wow, this game is shaping up to be great! Tons of content even in this medium stage of development, and seriously ambitious in many ways.
That said, I find the core gameplay incredibly tedious. While certainly athmospheric, the slow pace of navigating the dreamscape imo discourages experimentation. For example, I just do not see the point of nightmares as they currently are. As I understand it, they are a lot more likely to spawn while in a bad mood, making bad mood dreams lot more risky. But bad mood trips don't appear to be more valuable than other modes, so what is the incentive to be moody except to see the variants, which are often accompanied with minutes of tedious walking through rooms of fulfilled puzzles and explored rooms?
I feel bad for coming off as so negative, I very much enjoyed the highs of this game, as is deservedly but perhaps unfairly expected of Godspeak by now, it has amazing sound and visual design, great scenes, good characters and a compelling premise. It's got some stuff dragging it down, but I'm sure it will end up great.
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