Highlight to read:When I looked up into the lighthouse's spiral steps, I saw a black figure with tiny white eyes peering down at me from the very top rails, and then after one very long second, it silently pulled away. It scared the ever-living shit out of me right at the beginning of the game.
Aside from that, I think the best part of the game was when...
Highlight to read:...the striders blew up the radio tower.
And for those who want to understand the plot better, here is what I gather after playing twice...
(major spoilers here, i think):
Highlight to read:The only fact that exists in the story is that Esther Donnelly was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. Everything else we "know" about the island and about Paul Yakobson is contradicted at some point by the narrator's increasingly agitated comments.
At some point throughout the varying lines of the narrator, Paul Yakobson is simultaneously referred to as four different people: he is the drunk driver who killed Esther, an old hermit who charted the island, a biblical figure on the road to Damascus, and even possibly the narrator himself.
Outside of Paul's situation...I think the island (sometimes "the stone") is a metaphor for the strife of both Paul and the narrator (if they are not the same person). The narrator deeply mourns the death of Esther, and wishes for her to "come back". He is bitter and cynical due to her death.