I recommend the game as I enjoyed it very much. Here are my thoughts: + very good exploration + great atmosphere + great style + stealth recommended + bonus suits are fun + cyberpunk + RPG elements are done well + took me 17 hours to complete and another 2-3 to hunt achievements (this is the only game I have 100% achievements on gog.com) Neutral observations: o combat heavy, I lowered dificulty just to make it smoother experience (implants/suits can fix that) o bonus suits are seriously overpowered o I did not like the hacking at first, but then I learned how to do it and it was ok/entertaining. However there are few things I did not like: - on of the first tasks is to find a doctor - but he is hidden! I've spent 5 hours doing other quests, unable to find him before I finally gave up and looked his location online - that is a serious design flaw!!! - made by small team, so animations are mostly clunky, could use more animation frames - music is very repetitive, sounds like 1 minute loops in most locations Overall great game in my opinion :)
First of all, i did not like the first one much either, but at least it was short. As you already know, this game is amalgam of every cliche and gameplay element from older games, especially old RPG from 16bit era. Unlike the first game, this actually has its own story, and it (while cliched to the horizon and beyond) is actually good and interesting! The graphics are also very good! But unfortunatelly there is more.. no, this is not about grinding and unending attrition battles like in Final Fantasy (I never finished FF6, how can someone claim game is so great just for the story, when the actual gameplay is such tragedy??). Here you are beaten to the ground by "different play - styles" - so after some adventuring there is terrible platforming (with everyones favourite disappearing platforms), there is shoot-em-up section (really annoying), some running sequence (???!!! , but annoying as hell), fughting sequence (like mortal kombat -- suprisingly easy, so it was not all that annoying. and then there are some old arcade games. Pong - ok. Snake? Well, ok. Space invaders??? Should be ok, no? Well no. You see, space invaders were a game on square screen with relativelly slow aliens and fast turret. Here you have slow turret and fast aliens on widescreen! So you basically cant stter from one side of the screen to the other before aliens reach the bottom. And that is it, I did not get past this section.. From youtube I learned that another section is PacMan. Yes, freaking Pac Man. That game that you see and tell yourself: it is so great we got so far from this. I hated pacman on my 8bit Atari and I hate it still. It is stupid game. And I play RPG games not to play pacman or invaders or 1942 arcade. I play RPG to play RPGs, for the story anch characters. Not here, tho. And there are many many MANY MANY BOSS fights.. I hate Boss fights. Two stars for graphics and a story..
