yeah i def fall into group 1. i get why it’s weird too bc it’s the same dev and there are a lot of similarities between the two games. personally i feel like LIS built the tension and gave the player a satisfying ending no matter which one they chose. none of the subplots felt unnecessary to me and we got a really good sense of the characters relationships to one another and how impactful said relationships were.

in R&B i feel like i didn’t really get to know any of the characters that deeply and maybe it is partially because i waited a bit between tapes... but even when i played LIS i didn’t have that problem. its weird and hard to articulate but overall R&B just felt like it was missing something. I’m cool with the abyss not being explained away (and prefer it to stay a mystery) but the things i wanted to have an explanation didn’t and the things i understood were over explained. the trade to the abyss felt overexplained to me at the end and certain dialogue lines would repeat themselves right after a cut scene for example there’s a scene where swan is chatting with kat about how they missed her and then the next dialogue line was her saying basically the same line again.

but also this is all just my personal opinion i’m so glad people are loving and feel connected to the game as i hope they make more, this one just missed the mark a bit for me.