So far, the story is interesting and the atmosphere is decent, but it doesn't really feel like I'm doing much but walking. There's some small puzzles here and there and I'm sure I'll meet the monster soon, but christ, in the original game I was already sneaking by the monster and on the second hub. And I know that Amensia held off on you meeting the monster for a while in the first few hours of the game, but it still made you paranoid and scared of the creature through excellent sound and level design before it truly appeared as a threat. That's another thing, instead of the quasi hub/star progression, the levels have mostly been giant hallways, making it kinda easy to miss notes, especially in the gate world where everything is so smoggy.
And the protag's commentary is so damn unneeded for the most part. She's either ruining to mood with her 'Oh, that's so weird' reaction to scary shit or making very obvious observations to the player. "That corpse over there might be the writer of the note he was gripping in his hand!". She works in some of the emotional scenes, but in the casual gameplay, she just ruins the mood.
