I think you make a good point but the pace is slower than necessary to achieve these artistic benefits. It’s an overall detriment to the show when you keep squeezing a method that has no juice left. Emotional impact received, then sank in, then 20 more minutes on top? A bit too far I think. Narrative devices have diminishing returns, they pushed it so far that it looks like incompetence.

Please share the name of the 2D game from 2012, always looking for good recommendations

That il2cpp stuff gives me a big headache though. I guess you could consider that a kind of obfuscation.