Thirty Flights of Loving

I feel duped. I picked up Thirty Flights of Loving knowing it would take all of 10 minutes to play through in its entirety, but it came with the stamp of approval from a couple internet famous game enthusiasts whose opinion I generally agree with and respect. We don't agree with the definition of amazing in this instance though.

Thirty Flights of Loving isn't really a game. I knew that going in. It's more of a short story, but when you hear nothing but praise, you expect a good short story. Walking through the environments, you get bits of background story, before you're flashed to another point in time to get a little more of the background story. Everything's so disjointed though. I know that was a stylistic choice to flash to different points in time, and granted, that's kind of interesting to tell a game story that way, but there's not a ton of story to tell.

I just expected more of a payoff is all. Instead, I'm just super confused what I just played and why I spent money to play it.