instant classic. the 1-2-3 combo of unconventional narrative device, chess puzzles, and butterflies fairies could have fooled me into believing this was pulled from some unknown corner of the nabokov archives, and what a stellar execution of the visuals and music to match.
katurian is just incredible ("to make me look scaaaaary!") and algie was the perfect intermediary to bring my actual reactions into the story (the scene where she first sees panz felt like it was pulled straight from the lizard part of my brain at the exact moment i experienced it).