Space Tail: Definitive Edition

I LOVE Laika and her story, what she symbolizes. and I'm thinking about getting my first tattoo ever of her, so I REALLY wish I could love this game. The concepts are sound the puzzles are good (for the most part). It's just... not for me? I really like the "communication" mechanic, where you use a set of dog emotes to sway aliens to help you in various ways, but that basically stops being a part of the game after the first 2 hours. The same thing goes for the sight, smell, and hearing... you can basically play without it after the first hour. The mechanics are just boring after about 3 hours, and I looked online only to find out I'm only halfway there. There are weird glitches, some sequence breaks when loading saves where you have an objective completed but have to redo the puzzle you just did. also things like prop flying with one of the powers, i think its a bug but i also cant even really tell if its intentional or not. The story is EVERYWHERE and a little hard to follow. The gameplay cuts abruptly in and out of in-game cutscenes and still art with voiceovers, and MOST of the loading screens feel entirely unnecessary for what seems to be a pretty un intensive game, and the…