The most important part of a puzzle game are the puzzles, and that is where this game falls short. Every puzzle seemed to be about fiddling until stumbling on the solution, rather than requiring deep thinking and planning. Games like Stephen's Sausage Roll, or Baba is You, or The Golem all feature "eureka" moments that are the result of pausing and thinking, and in my opinion those are the most rewarding puzzles. But in Kine there were no eureka discoveries, and there wasn't a single puzzle where I could plan and see the solution in advance. Looking at let's play videos online, it seems most other people play the game that same way -- somewhat randomly trying all possible paths until happening on the solution, rather than thinking through each move. In my opinion, that is not good puzzle design, and is not rewarding to solve.

Aside from the puzzles, the graphics and animations are great. The storyline is surprisingly decent for a puzzle game. The controls are a bit annoying, having to repeatedly cycle through each character sometimes hundreds of time within a single puzzle. Made lots of keystroke mistakes with that. The puzzle mechanic itself is fresh and interesting, sort of like rolling six-sided dies, except with weird appendages that change how they roll.

It doesn't feel like you are really solving anything, it just feels like you are randomly moving through an abstract maze and brute forcing your way to the end.

The aesthetic and style of the game are top notch. I just found the "puzzle" gameplay very unsatisfying. I only made it maybe 20% through the game, but I can imagine it only gets worse so I'm just stopping now.

Here's some other puzzle games I have enjoyed and would recommend instead.

Baba is You (Best puzzle game ever)
Braid
Closure
Deleveled
FEZ
Fidel Dungeon Rescue
Keen
Portal 1&2
Steal Bastard Deluxe
Stealth Inc 2
The Swapper
The Talos Principle

fun cast of characters, you can tell the production spent a lot of time making this work and it's a labour of love.

Personally, puzzles ranged from well-thought-out where I can see 4-moves-til-checkmate solutions to bumbling around until somehow you make it there.

but the bad...

only 1 save slot. Classic.

poor controls:
Only 1 key to cycle through the characters/limbs. There's no toggle limb for the character nor is there a forward-cycle/back-cycle. You're locked to cycling in one direction if you stay on a keyboard. Mouse controls aren't much better as you have to be very precise in clicking the limb you want. Why not make the mouse click a limb-toggle, if that character is already highlighted?

poor controls 2:
if you accidentally click the reset button (or hit R, or was it Z, or was it X, or was it F?), there's no way of undoing that. Hope you weren't close to the solution.

poor interface:
even though you have a free camera, you're locked to orthogonal views. I get that up-down-left-right has to be in relation to the view, but so much is always obscured. Maybe make the foreground obstacles alpha translucent or something so you're not rotating constantly and obstacles keep swinging in and out of view.

poor interface 2:
In order to access the overall menu to check on options or control mapping or such you have to exit the puzzle you're in and endure the transitory animations. Animations are great don't get me wrong, but it eventually can add up to be too self-indulgent and over-flaired. Oh, and if you made any progress in your puzzle, you can forget about taking a break and jumping to another before coming back and returning to that state because the level resets when you leave.

poor gameplay music(yeah, I'm saying it): there are reasons why puzzle games have very ambient music and not upbeat or swing; it melts into the background and lets puzzle solving take center stage (topical!). When you spend say over 10+ minutes on a puzzle, there just isn't enough variation in the bg music here to keep it from getting repetitive and grating. Whereas ambient music takes a backseat to the puzzle solving, the music in this game has _too_ much character to let it meld into the background, but _not enough_ character/variation to keep the same riff you hear over and over from wearing down your nerves.

Love Gwen Frey's contributions to games such as flame and the flood and bioshock infinite. Her video tuts talking about animation sequences and the attention to detail in how to make the wolves or Scout's movement more fluid to fit the set of frames in TFatF are topnotch and show someone who's really thought a lot about polishing up a product. Love sokoban games such as fidel's dungeon rescue and cosmic express and steven's sausage roll. Love big-band style music. Been following this game for years, literally. Bought it as soon as I could upon release (I never do this for any game: case in point I'm waiting for the reviews on Manifold Garden, another puzzle game, to roll in). But I just couldn't love this game. Wish I could get a refund. I'm terribly sad about it.