I've played this game to the end, and I gotta say it's a big disappointment. The graphics look like SuperNES era (infact they look alot like the Final Fantasy saga, just with a modern setting). The starting idea is okay... albeit quite cliché: you are a failure of a writer that tries to win the love of his life back. Life in the game is harsh. The game itself is really bleak, in an attempt to simulate reality, but it feels forced most of the times. The main character is also braindead or just totally stupid. The alternative choices are not often evident as the bad idea. Little effort is done do remind the player of the stuff to do: since we play a writer, I'd expect a journal of sorts, kinda like the one you can write at end of every day (would have been way more interesting if that journal would be used as a quest/story notepad, with the option of tearing the page off or keeping it at the end of the day). Grinding the same minigames over and over to farm money is outright tedious, as they aren't particularly fun to play either. And you need money. Lots of it. The game contains a lot of indirect preaching and kinda annoys by force spooning you certain ideas and concepts... which I do find really annoying. It seems it wants you to ingrain some kind of morality while the game literally tries to do everything to shift you toward being "evil". Playing the "good" role is annoying, and isn't really rewarding, which I guess is another effort to give off the "it's realistic, life sucks" vibe. you spend around 8 hours or so to get thru 4 cities, that became less and less detailed as you go on, which gives the feeling that like the story writers got tired of doing their jobs and tried to halfass their way thru it. The most annoying thig is that everything you do before getting to San Verdano is USELESS. Doesn't matter if you were a Saint in disguise or the biggest a$$ on the face of earth: your fate is decided on the money have and by three dialogs after that point.Pathetic.
