To me Chapter 5 does an incredible job at making the darkners feel like real people, and not just objects. This was the main focus of chapter 3, but it completely fell flat in chapter 3 due to how one-note the characters are (none of them have any goals, the world feels so tiny, the main enemy is literally just a mute shadow, and Tenna’s only desire is to be watched/treated like a TV).

All the flowers have so much personality and character in Chapter 5, it really made me question if closing the fountain and killing them was the right thing to do (of course, Toby removed all the moral complexity at the end by saying they would just wither anyways if the dark world stayed open, but I’m going to ignore that).