Why don't they laugh?

Where the hell is the map

I enjoyed my time with the ghosts of the circus more than I enjoyed the frankly weird and anticlimactic modern story happening in game. I don't understand either ending and don't understand how those choices correlate to the endings they get. I don't understand what happens to the *blank* if you get the opposite ending. Deader? Disappears? Who knows! What was the object? How did it all connect? I've lost my mind contemplating the deeper meanings of this game- a game that has the depth of a puddle is drowning me. It's frustrating because the atmosphere is really cool! I want to know more. Instead we're almost given an interesting story then it ends abruptly and in the weirdest way possible. I understand that...there might be motivations for one particular ending but it's so abrupt that it loses all sense of meaning. Disregarding all of that as being potentially a personal opinion (it is)- I'll add that I had a lot of tech issues as well- I fell through the map, the optimization is terrible, and the interactable notifications are absolutely awful. There's a really cool premise here. I adore the circus mementos and the cats. I hope you guys optimize and tweak the story so I can come back to it and get blown away. As it stands- I'll have to give a no regarding recommending.