9/10. Was a bit short but the writing and graphics were wonderful. My only complaints were 2 or 3 sections that were I did not follow the game's logic at all. Easily on par with the Wadjet Eye games and Kathy Rain.
"We need to arrest John Smith. Here's a photo of him murdering a dog and him on tape confessing to wanting to shoot a politician. Now, if only there was some evidence we could find to link him to an unrelated crime." Most of the game is spent resubmitting an arrest warrant with no consequences whatsoever. In one case, I arrested "the wrong person" like 25 times before choosing a different city and getting a 25 year sentence.
This game takes place within an imaginary MMO complete with the random people queuing up to talk to NPCs. This fact alone removes all stakes from the game. While the game is functionally competent, everything you're tasked with doing is as interesting as listening to two people talk about playing an online videogame. Your party members will even talk to you about how they should be studying instead of playing the game. Isn't the point of a game to pretend you're not playing a game? The game does have an interesting mechanic that involves traversing a mutli-level map to find hidden items, however as the whole game is overhead I could rarely ever tell when two things were the same height and was constantly falling or running into walls.
This game is equal parts Metroidvania and equal parts boss-rush. Towards the end, you get about 1 boss fight every 10 minutes. My biggest complaint of the game is the dialogue dumps. Every 15-30 minutes you'll be subject to a 10-15 minute dialogue dump. Instead of sporadically giving information throughout, they would just suddenly hit you with a ton of dialogue, much of which you aren't even in. Overall, a strong B+ game with too many boss fights and not enough Metroidvania.
I wouldn't recommend this game unless you played the first one and want to re-experience the game anew. The tone is very childish. You wake up in an alien world and not only does everyone speak English, but you spend the whole game being a sassy-pants for no reason.
I was a bit underwhelmed by this game. While pretty, there isn't really much to interact with in the environment. Off the top of my head, I can only recall 4 puzzles in the game, and 3 of them can easily be fudged through as they tell you immediately when something was incorrect. However, the voice acting was great. Particularly Rory, who was fantastic throughout.
