All civilian NPC's vanished half-way through the game. Why? Don't know. Now my game is completely screwed as I can no longer gain EXP to get new abilities and literally nothing seems to make them return despite my efforts. Don't buy this game. It's broken beyond belief.
So, getting the main complaint I'm sure we all share out of the way: the voice action is pretty bad. However I did feel Joe, the main characters voice grew on me as I continued through. I've never played the Cat Lady as it's animation seemed very choppy, but decided to pick up this game as it looked more polished. The gameplay itself is standard point and click adventure, what really stands out is it's atmosphere and music. The game never drags on and keeps it's pacing pretty good, with the music or some form of rhythm in the background to provide the tension, which works well with the setting. The characters namely Joe as he's the central are well developed, and learning about them and the issues they face are very compelling. What I found to be the best part was the message, not the message itself but how it's presented to the player, it's never shoved down your throat or forced on you and it's generally handle well. It gave me a lot of respect for the developers, and I hope to see more from them in the future.
For the first two chapters, I had some good fun. The characters were interesting, and the story was going somewhere. However I noticed something when going through gameplay in chapter three, I was bored. The gameplay and mechanics are fine, standard and working, but the game starts to get VERY tedious around chapter three. Because around then it's shown all it has to in terms of gameplay, go from point A to point B a kill monsters. And you do this A LOT, with nothing to really change it up, maybe a few easy puzzles here and there. It doesn't help that the fights are very easy, and ammo is everywhere, so I never felt the need to plan anything out, or try and preserve any of my items. The game didn't give me much incentive to finish it for the story either, as it gave away major plot points early on through casual exposition of all things. So in the end, the whole thing just felt like a chore to play, I didn't feel any satisfaction finishing the game, just glad that it was over. What I did enjoy were learning about each character through finding the pages of the manuscript, and just the characters in general
