Posted on: January 2, 2021
CatR
Verified ownerGames: 411 Reviews: 50
Excellent
Playing on 1.05 it took me 70 hours to find a gamebreaking bug; a sidequest refused to progress due to a missing talk-prompt. 58 hours to find my first crash. Everything else was fine, no hiccups beyond minor graphical ones, so I'd say for technical performance this plays great. As for gameplay it's a weird, funky, mix of Deus Ex and the newer Fallouts. You get a lot of tools and toys to work with, and there's always something new to discover around the corner. The acting performances are great, characters are well-rounded; there's a lot of detail and nuance to the world. Basically every side quest has a full backstory whether it be driving a man to a doctor because his cybernetic genitals are on the fritz, or saving some young men from the claws of a particularly disturbed paedophile. As for exactly that, narrative, I'd give a content warning that this game deals with some very mature themes. Not in the sense of superficial moral quandries about murder, but more how to emotionally cope with rape. It's not particularly in-depth but there is definitely a lot of stuff here that can be emotionally taxing to deal with, and some of it is part of the main questline. It certainly adds stakes to a lot of interactions when you know how bad things can get, but I'd not recommend this game to anyone but adults. It pulls no punches. But this often works to the game's favour, as a lot of plot twists whether they end in difficult choices or the death of a character demand the player's attention and serious consideration. Something as simple as tacit approval can mean a character is dead or changed several hours of gameplay later. There's a clear cohesive logic to the choices and consequences the player makes, but they are very rarely drawing attention to themselves. Something you thought didn't matter inevitably will. In the end this is a game that destroys my bed-times, and never stops being fun. my favourite game of the year. Inventory management is garbage though.
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