Tales of the Neon Sea

This is a side-scroller point-and-click adventure game that rewards solving puzzles with a dystopian cyberpunk detective story. Note, this game is more about solving puzzles than collecting items. The most similar game I've played is Puzzle Agent.

THE GOOD:

• Really fun, creative, interesting, and varied puzzles!
• I enjoyed the story, finding it interesting and original.
• The story is a railroad—there is only one way to go with no branches at all. All clues must be found before you can continue to the next stage in the story. I am really bad at detective games, so this actually made the game playable and fun for me! However, you may hate this. YMMV
• Incredibly cute cats.

THE BAD:

• Certain parts of the game (including the pseudo-tutorial at the very beginning) require quick reflexes. This can be fun, or it can be awful, depending on how fast you are. I find it somewhat out of place in a puzzle game.
• It can be easy to miss the message that your game saved. I played the game 2 hours at a time, and when coming back later and reloading I frequently ended up having to redo stuff because the game didn't save when I had expected it to.

THE UGLY:

• There are numerous sexist depictions of women, e.g. every female character has gigantic breasts, there are lots of posters of women in sexualized poses, and one of the NPCs literally says, "it's great to have a young wife".
• The main character is 38 years old and is often referred to as an old man at the end of his life. Is this a bad joke? Are the developers confused? Middle age starts at 45, and old age at 65.
• The English translation is pretty good overall, with only a strange turn of phrase here and there. However, toward the end of the game it seems that the translation got rushed and the text becomes somewhat incomprehensible.
• The NPCs bounce up and down all the time. It's weird.