I quit this game in a huff, threw it in the bin along with its appdata folder. I got yet another 'happy' scene and it pissed me off. I went away angry and brooded on it for a while, i couldn't understand why i was so bothered by it, sometimes a game just isn't for me, that's ok, others like it, all power to them. So why did this one get under my skin so much? It took me half a day to realise. It's cause there IS a good game here, well written with good pacing and interesting characters, but the constant meta comments in dialogue and injections of faux-deep philosophy with deliberately jarring screen tears just get in the way of it, it doesn't add anything, it just detracts and disrupts. Like some shitty DDLC rip-off without the interesting pay off. I have no idea what Selebus's goal is with it, maybe i didn't stick with it long enough, but it came off as pretentious and intellectually insulting. I do not expect or even request such stuff be removed, Selebus is more than free to do their own thing with their game, i just felt like commenting on my experience. I wanted to like this game, but it got in its own way and prevented me from doing so.
