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It's a simpler thing in practise than some of Santa Ragione's previous games - effectively you are waking up and slowly carrying out simple, if escalating strange tasks each day, like watering plants, feeding the dog, or, erm, burying bodies, as a story takes shape around you - but the magic here is in the atmosphere and tone. The charm of this one is the way it brings forward its peevishness, with characters' tiny faces comically smooshed into the middle of their giant heads, the animation snappy, and the hand-drawn art a mix between old-fashioned newspaper cartoons and modern kids TV. But the real stars are Hinterberg's cast of affably rosy-nosed locals, who chatter away whether it's to politely redirect you from a currently-closed gondola to a late-game location, or to talk in-depth about the strange phenomena they're studying, or ways you can more effectively chat people up at the town's aprés bar.

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