If more point and click games were this well written and produced I would buy more of them. The game is very entertaining to play with a few hiccups here and there. I would say my favorite part about it is how it uses unorthodox puzzles throughout. The hiccups I mentioned are that some of the puzzles feel a bit hard to solve, but I think that's down to me, all of the puzzles use a kind of comedic moon logic to them and the hint system will just tell you the solution if you go out of your way to ask it to. The other hiccup is that this is a point and click adventure game that requires what Ross's Game Dungeon calls "arcade reflexes", that's a bit of a problem because it narrows the scope of who would get this game and cuts out some people who like adventure games but I would say overall the game is worth it. Overall a very charming and very well written point and click, I enjoyed it a lot and I could see coming back to beat it again in a year or two.
Lets get the stuff I like out of the way first. I adore the atmosphere of the game, when it isn't glitching walking Night City is fantastic. I like the shooting, it feels good to shoot and there aren't that many exclusively single player games that go for good feeling gunplay. I like the clothing options you have, however the problem is that you're generally going to always, ALWAYS be picking clothes for stats because upgrading items is frankly too expensive for the gains you get. I like the story so far. I hate the interface. in order to eat a burrito as best I can tell you need to go through three menus, and the backpack/selling inventory window is garbage, it lacks critical information and prioritizes showing boring icons that tell you almost nothing. You can't see secondary stats when upgrading an item like headshot bonus. You CANNOT REBIND KEYS BY DEFAULT. The minimap had a really hard time telling me how to get out of the apartment for the first time. The ai for citizens in the open world and cars is frankly pathetic, less than what you'd get in open world games almost ten years ago. The first time I alerted the cops they instantly spawned directly behind me and I evaded them by, of all things, seemingly glitching them out of existence by walking nearby them. The reason the cops spawned was because I was trying to take a stealthy approach to handling gang activity and the game just couldn't handle that at all because I'm pretty sure it was using an area based trigger to not have the cops care about you killing violent wanted gang members(the area trigger seemed to be about the size of an area rug). The biggest problems I can see with this game, what REALLY brings it down seems to be the direct implementation core features of the game that you have to interact with in an open world game are just bafflingly deficient. When the game works it can be a lot of fun I like the story a lot, but stepping outside of that story this feels like an early access game.
