I really wanted to like this game. Like, I *REALLY* wanted to. But in the end, I think it's a game that squanders its own potential. It's superficailly a spiritual sucsessor to LSD Dream Emulator, but it sort of just does everything that game does, but worse.
The only way I can really describe it is "hollow" and "desolate". Sure, it has a lot of pretty visuals, but it doesn't really matter since there's nothing in the different worlds besides that. Everything is stagnant, empty and there's nothing to do besides finding a door to a new world that's functionally the same.
You go to a new world, look around for a little while going "neat", then spend up to five agonising minutes trying to get from this empty world you've gotten tired of to go to the next one, just to repeat the process. It was like that in LSD Dream Emulator, too, but there the agony was short, since you could end your current dream by running into a wall/obstacle/character and slide into the next one with relative ease. But here, you sometimes have to brute-force an escape, because the parth to the next world isn't obvious, and it's easier to just keep walking in a random direction so you can reach a hole/the end of the map to go to another place. And then pray it doesn't send you on a loop between the same three maps eight times in a row.
This can, however, be improved with the following measures:
1: Add some anti-frustration mechanics. Like, making the next door a little more obvious after the player has spent some time in a specific map, just so you don't have to wander aimleslly to move on, or ad an optional key to skip to the next map.
2: Add some interactable elements to each map. The amount of things you can interact with is near zero, besides that one map where the map flees from you when you get close to it. And you can't pet the glitch creatures that roam in certain maps, as they're always placed above the height limit of what your character can jump in said map.
3: Add some random events. This one is taken straight from LSD Dream Emulator, but it is sorely needed. Add a character, or a floating thing, or anything that has a random chance of showing up to spice up the dives. That way, you will get less frustrated if you loop around to a map you've already been to by changing up the context of it.
4: ADD A MECHANIC THAT ENSURES THAT YOU DON'T KEEP GETTING REPEATED MAPS. This one is the most important one. I kept getting sent in circles between the same three maps on my longest run of the game, which turned it from "charming" to "chore" faster than it should have.
And I've managed to softlock myself in two of these worlds, which required a nice ALT+F4 to get out of. Oh, speaking of, if you tab out of the game, good luck getting back into it without dragging out the Task Manager to manually re-open it.
Overall, I don't regret the dollar I've spent on this game, but it just made me sad that it wasted all of this effort on being visually stimulating instead of being engaging. You could pretty much reproduce this game by pressing on your eyeballs really hard and looking at the trippy patterns.
