No Sleep for Kaname Date: The emotional depth of Somnium puzzles

When AI: The Somnium Files released in 2019, I was first drawn to the narrative adventure’s jokes and absurdity. But what really drew me in were the Somnium puzzle segments, in which detective Kaname Date investigated characters’ minds. By using a high-tech device, Dante can enter someone’s unconscious and explore a tridimensional representation of it as a means to help him to solve a case. In a very Inception-like structure, he unlocks deeper levels of that dimension by learning new pieces of information and figuring out the truth hidden in that person’s mind.