Recent reviews by a well-trimmed bush

Stunningly beautiful game, but ultimately left a slightly bitter taste. I really wanted to give it a positive review, but there were just too many things that got on my t**s...

Pros
- Graphics are amazing. I recommend playing at full settings if you can manage it, even if you can only average 30fps. 1050ti averaged around 40-50. I have never taken so many screenshots in my life
- Gorgeous, well-recorded soundtrack, which really added to certain moments
- Very detailed sound design in general, so wear headphones
- Great voice actors (especially the Shropshire accents!)
- Actually contains bees. I love bees.
- Genuinely feels like a warm summer evening in an ordinary English village, which is commendable

Cons
- As stated by pretty much everyone else, THE WALKING PACE. Slows to an absolute crawl at times, and while I can understand the developers wanting us to take it in, it can be limiting if you go wrong, which brings me to:
- Infrequent saves. Want to go to bed? Tough, your last save was 38 minutes ago and there's no way of telling when the next one will be available. Absolute pain in the butt to have to replay it again as well, due to the slow walking pace.
- Easy to walk "the wrong way", and if you do, you're in for a long, slow walk back.
- The story... Isn't that thrilling. Especially all the subplots you have to sit through.
- The guiding "light" misbehaves, to the extent that I had to reload the game a couple of times to get it to come back and show me where the heck to go. It also will take you in circles if you follow it, and sometimes will stop for no reason. I see this as a bug more than anything else, as I wasted about an hour of my life trying to get it to work before looking up a walkthrough and just following that.
- The game is essentially non-interactive. The only interactions you can make are to trigger audio events.

To conclude... Yes, it is beautiful. And if you really like a game in which you just walk and admire the scenery, then perhaps this is for you (I enjoyed Firewatch for much the same reason, though it was more interactive). However the story alone was not worth the snail-paced crawl, and it is much too easy to get lost and frustrated for an hour. Approach with caution.