Style over substance isn't always a bad thing or not interestng. Dog Days, even with its just serviceable gameplay remains worth exprencing once. The effects do very well to raise the fidelity of the game and the mean events of the plot, even if the plot is nothing that great all in all. An absolutely B movie title elevated by its smart use of presentation and shoking imagery. The PC version has serious issues though. Settings that don't do anything, missing effects, non functioning MP (GOG specific, but fixable even though it still may just crash) and in my case, a 100% repeatable softlock in Chapter 9. If you would like to expirence Dog Days, be sure to get it on deep discount just in case you expirence any of the above. Would make for a good double feature with Max Payne 3
Bugs and issues aside, the gameplay feels much more like Fallout 4 with Borderlands loot mechanics in a GTA V world than an immersive sim like Deus Ex (which at least I was lead to believe the game was going to play as). The story is intersting as is the world and the soundtrack is good, but enemy AI feels like that of Fallout 4 and the Police were better done in GTA 3. Like Fallout 4 while you are a custom character, you still have a predefined prologue and voice with minimal dialouge options. While stealth and non-lethal are options, it doesnt feel very rewarding and feels like more of a chore than challenge Upgrades and Perks feel almost meaningless with Sights giving 0.0x% modifiers and the skill tree being almost ignorable in the way spec.ing a build not locking you into a style of play determined by the skills you choose as a player. When I started thinking and playing Cyberpunk as less of an RPG and more of a GTA style looter-shooter (a la Fallout 4), I began to enjoy the game more. It's still disapointing comparing the released game to what the marketing suggested the game was, instead of a 'next-gen openworld game' we got a slightly better 2015 game
