The amount that people praise it makes me wonder if I should replay it.
I tried it a few years ago, played 5 hours and quit after feeling incredibly frustrated with no idea where to go or what I was looking at. Always felt like I was missing a puzzle piece that everyone else got.

That may be comforting, but a lot of us are worried about the acute "what the heck do we do *now*" in this situation.
He may be temporary, but as before, he will have a profound impact on our just-as-temporary lives, and that's what's causing so much unrest.

Be careful with important files, especially if that drive's been transported or moved a lot in that bag for years. Losing important files to a hard drive physically failing can be rough