Griseus is a game that's hard to talk about. Because it's just. All spoilers. Which goes to show that it has a good pace and delivers plot beats handily one after the other. 

Everything after this is gonna be spoiler territory, so please don't read it if you haven't gone through Griseus yet. It has some great surprises for you. 

I adore the character design, the music, the art. All of it flows really well, and while I can tell the difference between the main author and some of the guest CGs, I think they always work well. The minute differences in Gray are the only really obvious things, and for the most part they're not distracting or really noticeable. The art style stays consistent. The writing is strong, and impressive. But really the way it's utilized overall is in the way the game plays with and abuses the fourth wall. Fakeout title screens and chapter ends, stealing the ability to make choices, pov writing swaps. This is all utilized in a way that pulls that narrative together, while setting up answers and mysteries that come together. Even the line boil, which is gorgeous, lends itself to further meta-narrative.

OKAY goddamn, lookout Gray, hotted boobs up ahead, tits big ones! One of my few critiques, if you can call it that, is just that all the men we see are buff. They're not overly buff (anymore) but they're allll well built. Wayne may be busy as a doctor, but he still has time to hit the gym. Richie's shirt is holding on for dear life. Pointing him gently away from me so when the button flies off at hydraulic pressure levels. But I think Frida and Sara look normal and good, so honestly it's more of a note than a real critique. The other thing is the setting/time frame. I love that Gray is an unreliable narrator. We don't know his last name, or if his full name is even Gray. That is all totally fine! I think the 1940s is a fine setting, and the time period works well. Nothing ever steps out as anachronistic or time breaking... the only problem is that we don't know where we are. Unless this setting is just on a completely different timeline, it's hard to imagine anywhere completely untouched by WWII. The secrets and mysteries present, shady organizations with high ups involved, mysterious disappearances, etc.. Part of the fun of a mystery is trying to solve it, and I feel like just a little bit more information about the world around us would open up for even more speculation and solving. Buuuut the game isn't even 30k words in yet, and is already so filled with information I suspect we'll be able to look back and find there was plenty of set up already. So mixed bag, where I would like to know more, so I can speculate more, but maybe it's just on the horizon. 

Really, I think Griseus isn't afraid to both hold surprises for later, but give us a lot to go with. If, ultimately, the game holds true to this message of love, and faith, and acceptance, and forgiveness... maybe everything will be okay. It's certainly assured that I'll be waiting for each update with bated breath. I need 500 more CGs of Wayne smiling on my desk stat!