Most of the 1 or 2 star reviews will tell you "you move SO SLOW" or "the devs are COMMUNISTS" or " you can't finish the game!" or "why is there so much propaganda?" These people didn't even try to play this game. First of all, double click-and-hold to run. It's easy, if just a bit tedious. Second of all, who cares what the devs' views are? Third of all, I've found but ONE potential softlock, and that requires you to suddenly decide to interact with an item you should find Day 1 in the final, I don't know, 2 hours of the game, for the first time? Otherwise, the game provides fail-safes for pretty much any skill build to be able to work, such that bad rolls pretty much cannot lock you out of finishing the game. Fourth of all, there's a lot of "propaganda" because the game takes place in a world ravaged by civil revolt, its opposition, and its consequences. Naturally, people are going to have opinions on this. Other than a relative few characters, most won't actually push politics on you unless you prod them with your OWN views first. And if you get closer to the end of the game, and really explore it, you'll find good reason for the player character and those around him to be invested as such. Now to address MY review: This game is great. Your exploration of the world is aided, or impeded, by your 24 different skills, each of whom is now a voiced character, which you can make more vocal and more effective based on how you build your character, a disaster of a human being, recovering from a world-ending deluge. You interact with many good, terrible, and complicated characters, nearly all of whom I find to be interesting and, often, compelling. Some of them will be off-putting, such as the foul-mouthed delinquent children, or the vocal racists. But using your Empathy and Logic stats, you'll understand at least some of them. My one criticism, really, is that the last act is pretty much locked down. Solving the crime is anticlimactic. But that's kinda the point.
