I haven't played a point-and-click adventure since the old days and my instincts were more than a little rusty while playing through Born Punk. A few parts of the game had me thinking that classic "what am I supposed to do here?" thought. I've only played the game through once, so I do not fully know every solution to each puzzle at this point but I can say that many have more than one possible solution. There is some replay value here. The story is fine. The overall plot is maybe a bit simple, though the great setting and details of the world prevent the story from feeling tedious or over-familiar. It should be noted that much world-building is explained through reading data files. Not my prefered info delivery-method, but I didn't find it detrimental to the experience. I like the humor, especially as it is very characted-based while still taking the setting and conflict seriously. The bread-and-butter puzzle-solving and detective work of the genre is good, although there were times I felt like I came up with a neat and reasonable solution to a problem only to receive the well-worn, 'I'm not doing that' type of statement from Eevi. Sound mix of the game is strange in some places. The ambient noise of locations or the music will be louder than characters talking. It isn't a constant issue, but I found myself straining to hear characters from time to time. Overall, I really enjoyed the game. I've largely docked the rating one star because of, well... that ending. It didn't even feel so much as culmination of the story, but rather that the story simply stopped. Cliffhanger, sure, but I think many players will expect this to be a single story rather than an on-going series. Perhaps I'm over-reading this, but it felt like the plot was building up to a conflict which simply didn't happen. When the credits rolled, I honestly thought I got the 'Bad Ending' only for it to be the canon ending. I was a strange sour-note to finish the game on.
