Worth the investment whether you're a long time fan of point and click adventures or are interested in trying something different. Born Punk has a lot of features that make this game a great introduction into point and clicks for someone who hasn't tried them, but it doesn't take away from the experience for anyone familiar with the genre. For my first couple of hours of play I found myself stuck at 2 different puzzles but was able to figure them after some exploring before it became frustrating. It feels good to progress and I get the feeling (especially with the lore) that I'm in a large expanded world with a lot going on to discover. The cyberpunk setting is very prominent so if you like that kind of thing you shouldn't be disappointed.
I am very happy with this purchase.
I grew up on point and click adventures and honestly haven't found too many in this day and age that scratched that itch. This one though? THIS one? Legendary. Great story, great puzzles and my favorite thing? There is no one correct way of solving many of the puzzles. I love that choice.
I could spend many pages extolling the virtues of this game. But honestly, just buy it and try it for yourself. You won't be disappointed!
I'm not into Cyberpunk and I'm not into Point & Click. I think Monkey Island 3 is the only one I've ever played.
For some reason, I still had this game on my watchlist ... and so far, I absolutely love it!
I haven't finished the game yet (and I'll probably be taking my time) but I'm already very much in love.
I'm not sure why I could never connect to classics (Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, Full Throttle) but Born Punk somehow pulled me into it's world and it's lore completely.
The dialogues are funny. I even almost never skip them after I read them, because the voice overs are actually really good as well and it just pushes the whole experience onto another level.
Honestly, after a few days of playing this I can't really say what exactly it is that makes me love it so much. Maybe it's just the fact that you can somehow feel, that this game was made by people who really loved what they were doing and who had a vision, they wanted to accomplish. Whatever their vision was, they turned it into my favorite game in 2022 so far, and it will definitely be in my Top 5 Games of this decade.
Thank you for showing me the way to point & click adventures, after finishing this one I'll see if I acquired the taste ... and hopefully, there will be another InsertDisk22 game soon(ish...).
Really liking the game. Its a great throwback to the golden age of point and click games of the past. The pixel look fits really well and I like the voice acting. The game doesnt take itself super serious which is nice.
I had high hopes for Born Punk and waited for a long time until it was released, since I had added it in my wishlist. I bought it the day it was released (or maybe the next, anyway).
Although the 80s nostalgia and the cyberpunk atmosphere of the Menu screen and the game intro looked promising that was all about it.
Yeah, the pixel art is nice but:
1. There's one perspective in ALL the locations of the whole game. There's no depth (literally). Maybe some 80s LucasArt old ones seemed to be like that (or were indeed, can't remember to be honest) but one gen after those, all classics had depth. Monkey Island, Loom, Universe, Future Wars... Also some modern pixel-art games manage that perfectly (Gemini Rue, Primordia, Shardlight to name a few).
2. Too many characters to play with, whose stories are at least indifferent. Or maybe I couldn't care about them because they were three of them.
3. There was TOO MUCH dialogue (x3). I don't mean the dialogue options, I mean that there's more listening than playing.
4. Some riddles could be solved otherwise but the solution wasn't accepted.
5. The voice acting was from okayish to annoying.
6.The story itself was too confusing or didn't really matter to me so I just paid no attention.
7. Trying to tell too many things in a single game. It's not variety, it's a mixture of unfitting things.
8. Involving politics in games is ok when it's about ideas. Involving actual politics, actual countries, peoples etc in a game is not okay (even more when it's so far away from reality).
The team has potential in graphics but they need proper guidance when it comes to the story of the game (and back story) and the direction of the game. Maybe they manage it on their next try.
