The menu screen is a mess. I mean that as a compliment, sort of. The font choices are a crime against readability, like someone discovered the dropdown menu in Flash and just went nuts. As an accessibility thing, it's a disaster. No contrast options, the hitboxes for choices feel like they're a pixel wide. But it fits the whole grimy vibe of this little hotel room they've trapped you in.

The pacing is like a microwave meal. You know, the kind where the edges are molten lava but the center is still frozen solid. You click through some of the most wooden, translated dialogue about a broken air conditioner, and then suddenly you're choosing which body part to focus on with the clinical detachment of a doctor's exam. The 3d models are stiff, their skin has this weird plastic sheen, like action figures someone melted slightly in the sun. But when the clothes come off, the jankiness becomes the point. There's a specific ending where the guy's hand clips right through her thigh, and honestly, it's more endearing than any polished AAA sex scene I've seen lately. It feels like finding a weird, sticky VHS tape under a sink.

I got the ending where she just leaves. Just walks out of the hotel room, and the game closes a new window pops up with a static image of a rainy street. No fanfare. I sat there staring at my desktop, feeling weirdly hollow. Then I reloaded and made the exact opposite choices, trying to be a total asshole, and got a scene where they just aggressively make out against the minibar, all sharp polygons and no physics. The non-linear thing is a lie, by the way. It's just a few binary forks. But the "lesson of passion" tag is funny because the only lesson I learned is that this hotel has terrible soundproofing and even worse interior design. That ugly floral wallpaper is burned into my brain. I think I need to adjust my screen's color settings now.