The good news first: the fighting mechanics are intuitive and fun enough right out of the gate, the graphics are as pretty as I'd expected from the screenshots, and it does have its requisite RPG elements. Unfortunately this is more than offset by a truckload of bad - what I've experienced of the backstory that was dumped on me one hour into the game reeks of black-and-white morality and a lazy attempt at creating an environmentally-friendly moral. To wit: The current state of the world apparently is due to an Evil Megacorporation (tm) they actually had the stones to name "Toxanol" - subtle! - somehow figuring it's a good idea to just leave nuclear waste lying around...but the main environmental hazard so far has been oil spills. I haven't seen much radiation at all. Who knows, it might have come later, though maybe the uranium all decayed into evil petrochemicals. Predators are bad. Apparently everyone's happy herbivores, or at least furry moeblobs, except for The Bad Guys. You literally get to choose your alignment at the start, and you have the choice of a squeaky, bubbly woman representing "light", and a snide, almost-witty man representing "dark". Your second moral choice: light, help a dude, or dark, leave him to die. You get your upgrade either way, it seems. Your third: go to the good tribe or the evil tribe. In fact, most choices seem to be binary in this game, I've not yet encountered a meaningful dialogue giving me a third option. If this keeps up, and I've seen no sign of it stopping, I'm going to have to refund this. The writing is just plain unworthy of a story-driven game, and the environmental issues it attempts to touch (whether out of genuine concern or in an attempt at being relevant) are handled spectacularly poorly.
