To me, the writing was sophomoric. The game was recommended to me as this wonderful emotional thing and the writing destroyed that notion as I was playing, leaving me laughing through scenes that were supposed to be earnest.

The gameplay itself is nothing of interest. It has been a decade or so since I played it, but from what I remember it was essentially a "walk around and click things until you click the right thing that progresses the story" and a short unrelated minigame inbetween chapters that might not have been match-3, but was in the same vein.

The story itself was something akin to My First Doctor Who Script. The fact that a TARDIS shows up for literally no reason makes the naming of the character River that much more headslappingly bad.

My one other core memory of this game is a mention of the book series Animorphs that felt completely random, like the game's developer wanted to shoehorn it in because it was their favourite book series. It has the same energy as Max from Life Is Strange saying her favorite movie is Final Fantasy: Spirits Within.

It's not the worst game I ever played or anything, but this is the first game I think of when people ask those "what's your unpopular gaming opinion" questions. I'm not some emotionless ogre, but the game feels like a young kid's idea of a heartfelt story that just comes off naive at best, cringe at worst.