I don't know how backers of the game felt about the final product, but I'm really amazed that Jane Jensen could write something so out of touch with modern sensibility. Every man in the game is calculated and cold, every woman is frivolous and only interested in money and jewels. The main character is an unsufferable unstable bore that the game insists instead is a "hunk". Too bad that no matter how many times the game tells me, I still belive he is a jerk and not dreamy at all. How did she go from Gabriel Knight - a likable jerk - to Malachi Rector (yep) - unlikeable and disagreaable? The puzzles in the game are also out of a 90s playbook and the plot is stupid beyond belief. Just go play Gabriel Knight instead, trust me on this.
