Alright, I'll be honest. This game confuses me and I've been procrastinating on this review for awhile. It's not the story. Not the gameplay. But something about the overal experience.

At a glance, there isn't too much to the game. It is a short horror-esque game with a handful of puzzles that range from pretty simple, to just right, to shouting at the game for being such a cheater. There are no battles.

The story is fairly simple. It managed to leave a lot of things unexplained in such a way that the player is left pondering the story rather than coming across as a sloppy presentation.

Now let me try to describe why this game is an anomaly to me. The whole story is about a little girl trying to escape from some kind of dream prison. Her path out is blocked by mostly unrelated puzzles that make up the bulk of the game. And an evil doll is trying to kill or capture her the entire time. You are told early on that this doll enjoys toying with its victims, which it actually doesn't really do very much at all. Or so you think. Without giving too much away, I beat the game fairly quickly and thought that was that. But my ending screen said "Ending 1," so I decided to take a second crack at it for a different ending. But where could this ending be? Well, it's not obvious at all the first time around. You sorta have to search around to try and trigger different scenarios. And once you do, bam! a whole new world opens up to you.

This world is far different from the first play-through. And it can be a real cast-iron b****. It's riddled with fake difficulty, and your objective kinda wanders off without saying anything. Plus, there are a lot of glaring or jarring moments in the game's presentation (in the first scenario, too, in fact) that threw me off. I mean, you'd expect a game's presentation to be smooth, right? Well, not so. And I didn't really like it. And I didn't like getting game overs into the double digits because the game decided to suddenly erupt with fake difficulty. And I didn't like how the screen was so damn dark that I had to adjust my screen brightness just to see where the heck my character sprite was as I groped around in pitch blackness for the exit. And then it occurred to me... Maybe the game wasn't trying to be some great work of art. Maybe it was just out to screw with me. That's right, the story about a corrupted doll that toys with its victims was really just a cheap cover for the game designer to toy with gamers.

That was my experience, anyway. I'm not even certain that the game was meant to feel that way. It could be that the unbalanced puzzles, clunky mapping, and screen brightness glitchiness (I'm almost positive that the screen was not intended to be so dark at a couple parts) just happened to come together in all the right ways to create something unique. But none of those things really detracted from the experience. It really did feel like a dream... Minimalist graphics that weren't pretentious. Sudden shifts in emotion, movement, intensity. Little or no resolution. It's like James Joyce teamed up with Andy Kaufman to make a game. And there's no way I can bag on that. But I can't call it normal either, and it's awfully tough to compare it to normal gaming standards. So this game doesn't get ranked. It does, however, get a thumbs up, and I urge anyone who reads this to give it a go.