Its okay but I can't help but think that making multiple main characters direct expies of older ones hurt the narrative. I could tell exactly what was going to happen to characters like van Zieks and Stronghart from literally the moment I saw them, and the game didn't play them well enough to make the landing stick.

The third case is probably narratively the peak, with this really cool and hype scenario that the game never could really live up to in the aftermath. Sholmes hard carries every scene he's a part of, however.