First of all, I did enjoy the separate stories and the way they were presented, but I just couldn't get on with the main theme connecting it all or the ending. 
I really liked looking around in the rooms and nose around a bit. Too bad the game often made you feel trapped, which annoyed me more than it should. There were points were there was stuff all the way up to the ceiling, but I just couldn't comfortably stand anywhere to take a good look at them. And I knew about the zoom-in button. This game is beautiful, and I wanted to take in all the details, but often couldn't. That combined with a pov that didn't feel natural might have made me feel disconnected, I dunno. I just couldn't imagine those people actually living there. Dawn's room for example, there's no way she wouldn't have bumped her head the whole time, or Milton's Tower, how could he make those paintings when there's hardly room to take a step back?
Some of the actual stories where luckily way more open, or completely flat (the ones told via photographs or comic books). There was something to like in all of them, and I can't decide on a favourite, all had some strong stuff going on. 

What bothered me were a couple bits where the game tries to make you think it's a horror game, at the start where there was apparently a noise coming from the garage (I already explored that whole area, and was actually looking at the dragon in the pond when that piece came up, a bit weird) and the mention of monsters terrorizing the family, it all fell a bit off and didn't fit what it was trying to tell. At least not how I felt the story in those moments. 
There's one moment where Edith wonders if her grandma made up all those stories, which felt off to me, as the stories, without the visuals, are mostly fairly easy understandable, and something that didn't feel strange or off in any way. It was just a little look at the end of their lives. It was the gameplay here that took the stories to another level, but that wouldn't be something Edith had experienced. 

I dunno, there's the talk about a curse, or haunted family theme that felt like it could have added more to the story. The separate stories just didn't really feel connected to each other. (I'll add here that I've lost two sisters and my dad by the time I was 21, so I've had that actual feeling of being cursed for a long time, and I've made up stories to myself to better understand the death of my sisters when I was little, and that was just something I'd never felt in this game. Edith never really knew the people the stories were about, so they're mostly just that, stories.)

And some smaller things that keep nagging me:
-Why were both Edie (? correct name? Grandma I mean) and Dawn able to live quite a long life? All the boys and men died, but both the women were able to see (almost) all their kids die. I'm guessing this is just a coincidence and not important at all, but it keeps coming back to me.
-Which brings me to the next part, why where all the kids named after the mother's side? Think all of them had Finch as their last name, which the game tells you is a cursed family. Why didn't try at least Dawn to go for her husband's last name?
-Apart from the electricity not working, the house didn't feel like it has been empty for 7 (I think?) years. I need to see the first "missing" posters that'll keep their print in such a good shape for that long, scattered around outside the house.
-The "and oh, I'm pregnant, why am I climbing all the time" felt a bit out of place, specially as that was about the only way to get to a new room after that. Climbing walls, rooftops and broken stairs.

And the end. I don't think it was too bad, it's definitely a closing end. He's the first Finch not knowing any of the other Finches, and a male, so might be the one to break the curse? Doesn't matter of course, but I don't think any of the other Finch males (apart from Odin) ever got old enough to have kids. 
Edith's death felt a bit cheap and easy at first, but thinking back on the stories, they were all not very complicated ones, just were nicely dressed with some good gameplay bits. So I'm ok with that.

Another thing that annoyed me a bit about the pregnancy is that I just didn't know, why after everything she knows (and this is at a point where she had already left the house with her mom, and read most about the stories in the library) she still wanted to get pregnant. At some point it should be enough right? And she, more or less, paid for it in the end. 

But yeah, that's another thing I need to let go. It's not really about choices in life in this one. Think once I'm done overthinking all this it's one I'll have fond memories of, but I might need to replay it to really appreciate it. 

It does remind me a lot of the Winchester Mystery House.

can't move while the cake explodes