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Played through SeaBed.

Just checking I understood this right: Sachiko's perspective is real world apart from some hallucinations, Takako and the other characters in her chapters "live" in Sachiko's dream world, and Hibiki is an imaginary friend / second personality based on the doctor doll who sometimes takes over Sachiko and is thus able to interact with people in the real world as well. A thing that I think was left unclear was Kozue existing in both the real and dream world. One EGS review speculates that she's just a hallucination as well (seeing she's supposedly young Sachiko in the dream world), but she's a character who picks up on Sachiko / Hibiki's weirdness in the real world so I assumed she's also meant to be a real person. She also interacts with other characters, though according to that one review it's supposedly the same as Sachiko previously thinking Takako interacted with the office members.

Overall a pretty neat game, though I was kind of hoping it to pick up the pace after the first chapter. While there's mystery, the game in general is very slow paced and it's more about the characters' inner drama and slowly unraveling the past rather than some constant suspense. At least style and atmosphere wise it felt really different.