I was worried that when I opened the game, it would be a pure Yume Nikki-like. That wouldn't have been a bad thing, it just would've made it difficult to judge since games that are similarly abstract and cryptic usually are too nebulous to ever really understand. Then the game crashed to desktop, and it all made far more sense.
Approaching the game as a "found footage" type of experience helped contextualize gameplay as being about mystery solving rather than traipsing through mazes. I really appreciated the chat logs as well! It was extremely interesting piecing together who the protagonist *really* was and what drove them (though I'm still not entirely sure what happened). The animations and illustrations were stunning too!
This was a beautiful game that definitely messed with my expectations more than once! Great work!