My partner and I got to play this together, it was really nice and bittersweet. :”P Kind of feels like personally sitting through the learned helplessness experiment. And being painfully socially isolated as a kid no matter what you did to try and make things work this time. A voluntary stasis to prevent every following action from rendering the situation so much worse than before, forever wanting to regain that once unblemished slate, a figurine in glass casing, the untarnished ideas of past.
That stasis being a choice, but still a form of entrapment that makes paralysis feel safer than any misstep, even as it renders you sitting ducks at the end of a maze with the beast drawing ever near.
Very fun game, but that cabinet instills evil urges in me.