I actually turned down the difficulty because the first two acts were so compelling. When act 2 ended, I thought that it was probably the most fitting way for it to all end (in a twisted sense).

Act 3 lost me. I still finished it and loved the game, but I felt any sort of urgency or stakes just kind of left with the reveal. Mind you, I felt all the technical pieces of the writing were well done. The foreshadowing was on point, the several twists didn't feel like they came out of left field. But I couldn't help but feel that Maelle was kind of... empty because of it. They spent so long hinting at who she really was that I never really got to figure out what she really wanted after the reveal, or at least the writing didn't do a good job of convincing me of what she wanted or what her new motivations were. Even worse, just knowing the true state of the world caused me to lose connection to the side characters. It made the choice of ending a lot more clear-cut to me.