humor, situations, and characters […] are more thematically linked than at first glance
This is an interesting thing for a review to say. I wish reviews would get more into this sort of thing.
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Surprised to see part of my review here! Thanks, it means a lot.
It makes me think I should have gone into it a bit more. I mentioned themes of religious and scientific hubris throughout the game.
Apart from the main villains’ mad pursuit of power, a few things that leap to mind are the unicorn that’s being mind-controlled by a cyst (IIRC by its own fault) and (IIRC) the angel’s warning about using the magic ampoule without causing disaster.
Maybe those are more explicitly connected than I’m giving credit for.
In other words… maybe what I’m getting at is that the game is obviously a power fantasy, but it takes a look at that from more angles than I expected.
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I’m very bad at noticing deep stuff like that in games. That’s why my reviews don’t get into that sort of thing. (What I’m trying to say is that I’m dumb. I love hearing analyses of games though! They always make a lot of sense in retrospect.)
However, I’m Scandinavian, and I usually do catch the references to H. C. Andersen fairy tales in the LMG games, since I know many/most of them from my childhood. These references often help me notice (some of) the thematic links in the LMG games, of which there are many.
Anyway: Not sure if this was meant to be a megathread for this game, but since it’s here and since @pbparjeter said they got lost in their review, I might as well share my map for the game (at least the part that I needed to map to make sense of), which I recently uploaded to IF Archive:
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Nice map 
That makes things clearer. I think I mainly got hung up on each area having more than one station (and one of the areas having more than one junction).
Someone mentioned that the first letter of the stations relates to the thing you’re supposed to be doing, but that didn’t help me much …
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