Pros:
- really nice art style
- music fit to overall atmosphere
- native DS4 support

Cons:
- no map in semi-open game
- clunky controls
- camera that sometimes knows better where you want to look
- drops to 20 - 25 FPS
- ending twist that doesn't go well with previous narration
- only one checkpoint at chapter beginning in level selection menu, so hunting for achievements is annoying
- only one automatic save

Conclusion:

Story: We start game on an island. Follow red fox, see character in red hood that's always few steps ahead of us. Like if they want to guide us. There are paintings that show us bits of the story, we can find collectible "books" that allow us to learn more. And then game ends with twist that basically negates whole story. It's game where everyone can have different ending, and be sure their version is only proper. So meh. I don't like games with open endings, where nothing in the end is explained as part of the lore.

Gameplay: It's simple platformer with puzzles. When puzzles are fine, don't require weird logic and don't have step learning curve, platformer part is bad. Controls are wonky and sometimes not really responsive, character can have problem to understand we want to jump from the edge instead of move along it etc. On top of that camera can know better where we want to look. Which is annoying. Character can roll, but there is no gameplay-wise reason to do so (no places to crawl through or need to avoid enemies).

Graphic, music, bugs: Art style is nice, but game is poorly optimized. I did comparison last month in my GPU undervolt add-on. ME: Andromeda has way more effects and advanced graphic, and it still never drops to 20 FPS and is less GPU-heavy. RIME can work poorly on GTX 1070 from what I saw in discussion page on Steam. So yeah. You can mess up Unreal 4 game as well, and not only Unity games can be so badly made. Music is fine, fits nicely to changing game atmosphere (and have violin moments, I love violin). On top of that game is bugless, if we don't count poor optimization and random problems with platform detection.

Pros:
- fluid controls
- well made bosses
- interesting and well thought lore and story
- characters wrote in humorous way

Cons:
- not best journal
- no ability to sort items in inventory
- not all game mechanics are explained properly, even when we're forced to use them

Conclusion:

Story: Our character is thrown away from house (or more like hotel?), as they were lazy and messy. So we're forced to find new home for ourselves. It later turns into "save the world" theme, but it's shown in not so-serious way. So it doesn't feel overly forced or pompous. We learn history of Wuppo land, and facts about creatures that live there. Nothing is overly deep though, but it doesn't need to be in this type of light game.

Gameplay: It's similar to Hollow Knight. We have backstory to push us forward, responsive controls so platforming parts feels well-made, simple boss fights that doesn't require nanoseconds accuracy. Both platforming and boss fights are way simpler in comparison to HK, which makes gameplay less stressful. There is only one annoying boss mid-game that could be designed better. There is a bit of metrovidania touch here. We find objects that are needed to progress plot - like onions to make soup. We collect a lot of objects, and can equip them to use as weapon or costume. They are tied without any restriction to any button on controller we want.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is really simple, but specifically colorful and weirdly happy. Music acts well as background, characters are not voiced but use sims-like blobs / clicks when they talk. Game is bugless, I didn't find anything that would make it hard to play. Only (as I wrote earlier) one boss could be designed bit better, because it's possible to get stuck between it's body parts during the fight.

Pros:
- addition of influencer tool
- story is bit intertwined with events of 1st game

Cons:
- information added after official day ends (so a bit like in free roam mode) are not marked as "added" next day. They can't also be added again (already in database), so sites are marked as having unread info
- finale with rather not shocking revelation
- characters feel bit less fleshy than they were in previous game

Conclusion:

Story: It did feel like story was worse than in previous game. Maybe because I was caring about main suspect from previous game more. In this game our task is to localize double agent, who went missing while spying for other country. It later changes into task to discredit journalist, who wants to put The Nation (so our mother country) in bad light. Of course nothing is simple. People have their backstory, which explains their motives. And it's again strongest point of this game - showing that reality is not black-and-white, and it may be better idea to dig up longer to see someone's motives, instead of acting on 1st bit of info we find.

Gameplay: Just like in previous game we read internet sites, check people phones and PCs to find bits of information. After they are uploaded into Orwell (so big spying program), can lead to other bits thanks to cross-linking. We found that someone met suspect in park? Let's put park address into facebook-like site search, to find photos made there, and see who suspect met with. On top of that we have influencer tool (unlocked near end of the game), which is used to create narrative that's later send into social media. Similar to what trolls on troll farms in Russia and other countries do. It is bit scary, that something we do in game, is happening every day in real world. Where gov departments responsible for propaganda use farms, to send certain narrative into the internet, to create "reality" that's convenient for them.

Graphic, music, bugs: Apart from this "can't mark as read" bug game is bugless. Graphic is basic, but well designed and serve it's purpose well. I do think though developers could use some slider to change interface size. I did feel like a lot of space is wasted for too big buttons, instead of giving more reading / compare space. Music is really ambient, nothing exceptional or memorable.