A very beautiful game. The first couple hours didn't really click with me, but by the end I really liked it. Gameplay itself was fine, but the music and art stood out for me.
As for the story, I really liked the ending. I read the game as moreso the child was experiencing what we played through as the father moved through the stages of grief. I didn't see the twist of the child being the one who had died, and I was really moved by the ending. I think the message and theme of the stages of grief are represented well enough through the different levels, and they work better in my opinion if you imagine the child as being himself throughout the game, while the emotions are matched by the father off screen. At the end, the child has accepted death and moved on from the purgatory of the island, while the father has accepted it and by finally going back to the child's room and begun the process of moving on with his life. ---
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