what may or may not be hard reality

But it doesn't. You have to spontaneously click everything at random until you figure out how it all belongs together. (Kinda like how Shift 3 is too complicated because there are inter-connecting rooms and you gotta do stuff in other rooms to get things to happen in the first. Too complex.)

Strange with the dragon. I mean, it took a few tries for me to figure out how not to get really really killed by him before I had time to jump on his back, but if you're on the top platform on the pillars he can't reach you, and then you jump as close as his head as possible and hit A to pull.