It’s probably a cross between not as bad as you think and exactly as bad as it sounds— a bit more about managing expectations and hoping that you can pause during cut scenes
The next bad thing is now I’m apparently also old so I can start falling asleep at 11ish :-/
I dug my time with it, but I thought of it as more of a roguelike telltale game — heard it really shined if you played it through multiple times to see all the scenes, started doing that, but just couldn’t after running into my first repeat sequence
I feel like back in my day we had 40 year mortgages— was that 15 years ago?