A half-star? Yes, in spite of this game's promising start, and because there's a reason that “betrayal” is at the bottom of Dante's vision of hell. The early chapters of “Dream Machine” built up tension as the curtain of normalcy gave way to creepy shenanigans and dream-dives ended in short bursts of macabre violence. But it went too far in the insulting, misguided finale by using abortion as a metaphor for self-actualization - a nasty, regressive, and unforgivable interpretation of the biblical Paul: “when I became a man, I put away childish things.”