I don't really know how to rate this one, because I have incredible respect for what it is and how it helped push gaming as a narrative form forward, but for the life of me I just cannot get into it. I really wanted to like it, I love the idea of it as a true role playing experience. One in which the different possible builds of your character can drastically alter how you approach it both from a gameplay and story perspective. And I respect the vast array of options you can go down once you start a dialogue with the many characters the game has to offer. This, along with other games I haven't played such as Planescape: Torment, were clearly pioneers of the CRPG genre and massive influences on one of my favorite games of all time, Disco Elysium. There's just something about how zoomed out the camera is, and how dull the environments look in this game, that make it extremely hard for me to connect with the world or anyone in it. It's a shame, because I know it has so much to offer, but I just couldn't get invested in it, and so I had to abandon it. Compromising my score with a 3 star rating, which is somewhere between my appreciation of the idea of playing this game, and my actual experience of playing it.

Reviewed on Jul 09, 2021


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