Why do I feel like I am the only sane person here?
The story might be good but the gameplay is unbearable. You need to spend resources to light places and move between them. What? Spend resources to literally walk around the map? Yeah. Wtf? If you use too much stuff, you will literally get stuck in one place. I thought the developers would give you enough resources so this would not be an issue, but no. You literally have to resource manage to walk in this game. This feels like childhood starvation simulator, or that time where Mr. Krabs was charging their employees for oxygen.
Also, how is it reasonable that a stealth based game requires you to consistently be in light up places and avoid darkness otherwise you die? Are you guys mental? What? Specially because you barely have space to sneak around by being limited to all the places that have light, otherwise the rats kill you. This is not fun. It’s clunky. Moving around in a stealth based game should not be clunky. You should have enough space to be creative about hiding.
As a final note, how the fuck can everyone hold a torch except for the main character? Was she assaulted by a torch when she was a child? It feels like the enemies are flexing on you with their super power of having a torch in a game where if you step in darkness you die.
Honestly, just watch an online play through for the history and avoid touching this. People reviewing it likely did the same. If you unironically like this game play, stop resource managing the oxygen going to your bran.