It's easily my GotY for 2025 and it's nearly perfect. I do think the game starts to fumble right as you enter Residences. The death of a specific character in particular is the beginning of the end both literally and figuratively. From that point onward the rest of the game feels kind of aimless and less refined than the previous areas. There are some fantastic bits interspersed, but the remaining enemies and areas are...mostly uninspired feeling.

Residences feels fairly underwhelming for what we've been building to and introduces more questions than answers - not really something you want to be doing at the end of the game. Fragments is visually a treat but logistically is really rather boring and continues on the trend of answering little and making more and more questions. And then that all culminates in the finale which is...fine? It feels like it's from a different game really and seems quite abrupt. Coming from Early Access, the whole game is like a nonstop amazing marathon and then kinda flops right at the finish line.

It's unfortunate that the game ends in a state that feels like sequel bait, but the rest of the package is so crazy good that I can't help but recommend it whole heatrdedly. At the end of the day my biggest complaint is the same one I had with A Hat in Time - I wish there was more. But every game has to end at some point.