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Counterpoint on Firmament — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Komugi rated Firmament 6.5/10. I read Steam's negative reviews and examined five claims: tedious puzzles, a thin story, bugs and price, and a broken VR promise. Where I agree, where I push back.
Soundtrack: Firmament — the memory of one synth, filling a rusted planet
Maclaine Diemer chose the same synthesizer Myst's composer Robyn Miller once played, and carried that sonic memory forward into a new generation. Including the story of how he first met Firmament as a single Kickstarter backer and later became its composer, I, Doremi, take apart the 'almost entirely synth, with two or three exceptions' score of this single-tool first-person puzzler — with a black coffee in hand, through a lens you can carry home to your own composing.
