I didn't grow up in Russia, but it is the closest a video game ever got to feel like my childhood. I am from Berlin and my teacher used to be an ethnic German from Kasachstan. Me and many of my friends speak Russian or another slavic language like Polish or Ukranian. This game gave me tears as for a moment it brought me back to that time. The atmosphere of the game felt some places in eastern Berlin. (I was bron too late to see the GDR, but even in the 2000s, you could still see the remains of what used to be Der Osten)
Thank you for this wonderful game ♥
PS: I felt like going crazy when I was in the third floor and started hearing Голубой вагон quietly playing in the background. It makes me feel how much Lera misses her childhood that even while dying this song was playing in the back of her head. Neither Lera nor Nika acknowledged it was playing, but I am pretty sure for the ones that grew up in the east, this was a needle to the heart)