CORAL PLEASE THERE ARE OTHER SUITS BESIDES SWORDS, GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN TOO!!! 

This game's translation is a bit all over the place, but admittedly I think that's not as much of a hamper, because it feels kind of like a manic episode, especially when we're in Piotr's pov. The game is very bleak, and makes an extremely strong statement right from the start, with the body falling from the tree. I love the delayed realization that it's Ewa, that that's her incident. I love that the family is more concerned with keeping up appearances than getting Piotr help, so of course we're calling in the other family weirdo to deal with the newest family weirdo. Which plays perfectly into this "i have to maintain an unreal, cardboard cutout idealized form" that's turned into this manifestation haunting Piotr. I like that Ewa wears this front of kind of a cold, aloof, apathetic doc, but does care enough to help someone she shares solidarity with. 

I do think it's interesting that we have another blue hour esque choice, where if we want we can pick a very obviously bad end. It's the one part of the game I really don't care for, it feels out of character, and overly pessimistic, especially when Ewa so freely shares her solution right before that. Which is very... unhinged, but clever. Hold your own leash. I feel like in a strange way, it's a...nonstandard, perhaps even desperate, way to take back power from the noose, but a compelling one all the same. The magician is a reoccurring theme in your works, and the infinite possibilities of creation with the will is something I've come to rely on from StrawberryNoodles games, I can always trust them to deal me something new and compelling, that I'll often think about even after I've put the deck away