Slay the Princess ★★★☆☆

Honestly a bit disappointed. The game looks great, Jonathon Sims is great (I was a fan of The Magnus Archives¹), a lot of the horror is fun, but when I started looping I thought there would be a more of a puzzle element of trying to work out how to achieve various paths in order to work towards specific goals, but ended up just iterating through different branches of the decision tree as the ones I already did were pruned away and the metanarrative did not do much for me. There does seem to be an element of aiming for different meta endings through going through other combinations of paths in repeat playthroughs, but I can’t really be bothered to do all that again just for the sake of seeing more stuff for its own sake.