So I'm giving this game a negative review to "send a message" it's not a bad game per se, but I had major audio issues which, according to my searches, is quite common, but no one has a solution, I was even told to contact the devs about it. Well, they still haven't gotten back to me after 2 weeks.

So the issue is that dialogue audio is completely borked. The direction of the audio is random, sometimes 1 guy will be talking from EXCLUSIVELY your left ear, then the other guy will talk from both ears. It's RANDOM.

Here's an example in my vod 17:09 https://youtu.be/jSgIc1P_gi0?si=pjEELIC2KoORm7xC&t=1029

And then 19:17 https://youtu.be/jSgIc1P_gi0?si=SONNYK8nafRgSGe6&t=1157

(it's the first 20 minutes of the game so don't worry about spoilers)

As you can tell, this isn't an intended feature. The only way you can fix it is to change your computer settings to only play monoaudio. You SHOULDN'T have to change your computer audio settings to fix an in-game issue.

Second issue I had was the second-to-final puzzle. It is extremely tedious. A puzzle should be difficult to solve, but once you've solved it, it should be done. But in this game, you have to spend over 10 minutes doing the solution of the puzzle, walking back and forth. Like, I've solved the puzzle, now I just have to spend 10 minutes inputting the solution which is extremely tedious. I can't really make any examples without spoilers, but either making it a single screen where you don't have to move the character or halve the solution, either would make this puzzle more acceptable.

Besides these 2 actual issues, this game is completely fine. I have no reason to not recommend it to someone who has already played the first game and wants to check out the other games. But I won't give this game a good rating until the audio bug is fixed (the puzzle solution most likely won't be fixed without another remaster and it IS at the end so, whatevs)