Offensively good visuals and presentation, and their wonderous moody dreamlike quality extend to the theme and gameplay as well. Simultaneously entranced and on edge playing through it and exploring the environment. Few games (let alone freshman efforts) can have such a strong tone that engages the player, let alone managing to balance TWO simultaneously. Kudos.
The art is beautiful, but at times it can feel overwhelming, especially with a core gameplay loop revolving around searching for small details in such a vast area. The overwhelming and overpowering art design does make the game more challenging, but in doing so simultaneously risks it becoming annoying and aggravating which thankfully your game (mostly) does not! It works okay when it comes to searching the environment, it works less than okay when trying to read and decipher a very thin wispy font.
Truly A+ tone and world design, dreamlike in the best way possible.