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As survival horror, this game was a complete failure for me. Initially that annoyed me so much I didn't even want to finish it. But I think there's another reading where labelling the game "survival horror" is an elaborate joke playing on the triangle of identities (player, narrator, player character), and under that reading I like it a lot.
That is, (Spoiler - click to show)the game is a survival horror story for our narrator, Princess Cathabel X, who is finding out that her careless investments have put her girlfriend at risk of death. But she's narrating to herself, no one can hear her. An after an initial outburst our player character, Cath's girlfriend Dor, doesn't seem too fazed. As an ex-street rat who met Cath by trying to mug her, she's surely aware of the danger but she's also well equipped to deal with it; perhaps more resigned and fed-up than truly frightened. Then we, the player, complete the triangle, listening to Cath's fearful narration and fashionable bravado and condescending (?) instructions and telling Dor what to do.
Beyond that... the text is sparse (occasionally too sparse) but evocative, the combat is more tedious than terrifying but Dor is squishy enough that it serves to keep you paying attention, and you uncover just enough little details and mechanics to keep you (the player) busy and entertained while the story unfolds. And then there are optional outfits which change various mechanics, giving you a reason to go back and optimize your playthrough, if you're into that.
