It's a considerable progress in Snat's storytelling thoOkay, let's be a little fair here. I get bored when scenes drown on with random talk so I half-read or skim over text in longer scenes... and it took way longer than half an hour to get through it all.
It's definitely a weak chapter on the gameplay side of things, but it got his original goal across of setting up the prologue way better than the original did.
comparing the heaven-hell part with the hospital
Is like..
SNK ending compared to 15 minutes of Thorfinn farming