The pacing in the game is one of the only slight negatives. Luckily most puzzles are solvable and only once did I need to resort to a trusty walkthrough to get by. Now, I clearly made that up but it's not too far off what some games in this genre have been like. The puzzles in the game are relatively straightforward which is one of the main reasons I enjoyed the game so much, nothing can tank a point and click adventure more than overly difficult or obscure puzzles - ones where you have to combine a crab with a vacuum cleaner to shoot the crab across a room to cut a bit of string that causes a hammer to fall on a bookcase that knocks a book onto the floor which has a page in it that you need to give to a troll - but only on a Saturday etc.
There were some moments whereby I clicked the wrong object or made the wrong action, but this happened only a small number of times. The controls for the game were better than I thought they would be, it's no secret these types of games are really made for the pc experience where a keyboard and mouse are much easier to navigate, but surprisingly I found the switch controls well laid out and easy to use. For example, the first time it shows the Man In Red, the music used was so unsettling that I genuinely felt uncomfortable being alone in my darkroom, I don’t think music has affected me that much in quite a while. The music is great - whilst there isn't a whole ton of it, when it gets going it suits the scene down to a tee. Being set in a small town, it has a lot of the sorts of characters that you would expect a sheriff, a pastor, a Man In Red who you see in your dreams (who may be a demon) - just your typical small-town cast of characters. The characters are all well rounded Kathy is a rebellious yet sensitive person who can be hard at times but also very vulnerable. I always like it when a graphic adventure is fully voice acted, it gives it added depth as opposed to leaving it up to your own mental interpretations of how everyone sounds. The voice acting throughout is very good, the voices match the characters and other than the odd flat line here and there, it was genuinely up to a high standard.
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