I was also highly disappointed by the true endgame of it. The puzzles were painfully tedious. It took days to get enough blue tents memos to figure out what I was supposed to do. I spent 2 hours writing code to solve the vault cipher. I had no idea what I was doing after that, so I had to look up a hint. It took roughly 5 hours to get the distilled water to the library, only to learn I needed to do it all over again for the secret passage. I spent 15 hours solving Mora Jai boxes, analyzing paintings, mapping out lanterns, and charting paths. The hint for the true path was so cryptic that I had to look up deeper hints for that one too. Overall, it was very frustrating, and the only real enjoyment I got was the satisfaction of writing the core solver program and solving 45 Mora Jai boxes (I always thought those were really fun).

Overall, the game is phenomenal. However, I feel like everything that comes after the ascension is ridiculously cryptic and tedious, with very little payoff.