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find answers about the fate of the village, himself, his father's past, and the presence of the nearby Echo Garden
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wrote that the game was "extremely short, even being padded with unskippable cutscenes and no real sense of direction". Similarly, Will
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praised the game for its "great writing", "multi-layered and complex" story and "excellent voice cast", highlighting the "atmosphere of dread" in the game with minimal use of jump scares. Sean Davies of
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is short and never really overstays its welcome", he observed that the game's ending "falls flat" and "comes out of nowhere and seems thrown together at the last minute". Describing
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