Cloudpunk

Pro: I like the cubistic art style and the voice acting a lot! Con: The movement is part of the core game play but it's a bit annoying as you keep bumping into things and the city is too big to get familiar with.

It has a great atmosphere, awesome soundtrack and looks really cool. The story is interesting, but nothing to write home about. Gameplay-wise you either steer your flying car or walk on street level and talk to people. You are either delivering packages or passengers. Sometimes you get to make a decision as to how you want to handle a certain situation and it will have some impact on the story, but as far as I can tell, nothing groundbreaking. Simply put: if you like cyberpunk atmosphere and is intrigued by the idea of driving a flying car through always rainy-always night-neon lit city from point A to point B get it. But don't expect much. It's a simple, but good game if you just want something you don't have to think about and just relax. A solid 3/5.

I enjoyed this game. It went from being a fun little delivery game to something a little deeper. My main issue with it is the heavy handed politics infused in the game. There are quite a few times the character makes obvious political statements leaning a certain way. I don't necessarily mind politics in games but I prefer it to be witty or light. These are obvious and dumb. Religion no like women or minorities, man treat woman bad, gender bad, you minority so you dumb. Just really tired tropes. Other than this it is fun in little sperts but it does get repetative. Style is good. Story is meh, and I did not relate with the main character.

You go into these things expecting the story and plot to get better or at least eventually coagulate and explain the reasoning behind it all. Not with this game. It's very pretty, but the writing is amateur cyberpunk fanfic at best. Uninteresting characters, no motivation, no attachment to anything, just a series of tiny "moral" choices that are more like bludgeoning shame porn. WT actual F were they thinking? Didn't anyone play this before release? It's hard to believe that anyone with a room temperature IQ would have even signed off on this mish mash of tripe.

The only things that are good are the art direction, such as the novel voxel look, lighting, bloom and constant rain that provide a cyberpunk atmosphere to the city, and the quality of some of the voice actors. Everything else about this game ranges from ok to bad. I didn't encounter any bugs or glitches in my playthrough. Nor did I experience any hitches or lags and the game ran fine. The city is divided into horizontal layers which you must access through tunnels at the edges of the map. For each slice of elevation, there's a couple of tunnels that cause a loading screen. The city is a series of disconnected walkable areas, which are each basically a single street that you access by parking your hover car. This makes every street area feel like a small, disconnected little map with tunnels to layers just slightly higher and lower, making a simple walkable area riddled with transitions and loading screens. The buildings and alleyways look great but are padded with invisible walls and your character cannot jump. All walkways in these street areas are uninspired catwalks. The music is good, there are quite a few tracks that fit well. The ambient sounds, such as advertisements, sirens, rain, and such all sound great. The camera control resets to following your mouse every time you enter and exit your car and the turning radius feels off, like it's way too large. The writing is not good. You play as a middle eastern girl who must put up with _cultural appropriation_, when a guy wants to take a picture of your cultural embroidery for a movie. You scam him by selling him something claiming it's a religious heirloom. Another guy asks you out, he and all men should try harder. I don't really want today's topical issues hitting me in the face in my futuristic driving game. Then, my next mission is a human woman and an android male lamenting that people judge him since he doesn't _pass_ as human. Ugh, my mediocre, grindy driving game with a passable story got too woke.