No Longer Home Review (Kiku)
I had a tough time getting through this game and pretty much just ended up barely registering all of the dialogue early on and only completed it to get it off of my list. It was hard to connect with or care about Ao/Bo even when I had faced similar feelings of apprehension, lost, trying to self-identify, and the like. A lot of the dialogue seemed disingenuous or sort of faux deep especially when trying to touch on depression. The way they communicated with each other and their friends felt like just acquaintances and I was being put through minutes of empty small talk.
Aside from that, it was difficult to get actions to register and many times I'd end up across the room because I somehow clicked the action of something across the room even though I was trying to click on a microwave in front of me. It started feeling slow and tedious with the panning in and out that you could not skip and the character movement somehow felt how I felt dealing with how much panning in/out there was. The dialogue choices were inconsequential and some of the choices seem kind of silly to be saying. This game just was not it for me.