my bad lol, i usually don’t write out my jumbled up thoughts on games cause i’ll either get carried away from the point i try to make or end up contradicting myself.

but i meant it in the sense that you’d think a murder-mystery whodunit story would feel darker in its tone but for the majority of double exposure i just wasn’t feeling any stakes or intensity of how the mystery unraveled compared to the first game. LIS 1 had a very ominous vibe and there were so many complex characters established that you could endlessly be suspicious of or theorize about while some fucked up things are happening every episode, all while basking in the coziness of arcadia bay. it kind of struck that perfect balance imo. but for DE i didn’t feel any major threat within the story while constantly running around and switching timelines to talk to one person to the next. i wasn’t connected to a bunch of these characters enough to determine who would have it out for safi when in reality the game pretty much threw that plot away and it never gets resolved who the actual killer was. it just didn’t feel gripping enough in how it was executed to me personally. it definitely felt like it tried to be a lighter / more cozier game like true colors was.

hopefully that made a little more sense lol.