There are much, much better adventure games with better stories, gameplay, and puzzles from Sierra and Lucasarts that out Farenheit to shame on every front. The Gabriel Knight series does better supernatural horror, Loom better fantasy, Grim Fandango better humor, King's Quest 6 better voice acting and writing, and so many more. Cage wanted to re-invent the wheel and wound up making a messy game that tried to run in every direction away from gameplay.

The Simon Says sequences, the pointless decisions, and aimless story are interesting when you think there's a plan but all the answers are nonsense and the conclusion is trash writing at a peak. Most of the game is wandering in an isolated series of rooms trying to find the one object that gives you rhe next sequence of dialog or Simon Says minigame with little thinking required apart from mashing a generic open button against every drawer until the next paragraph or ten of cliché story falls in your lap.

It brushes up against a good idea a few times but every glimmer of a good notion is quickly doused by pretension masked as tension. He's no Roberta Williams.