Science fiction adventure, Snatcher with more of a Lethal Weapon feel. Good story, characters, set up, world building, soundtrack, cutscenes, and voice acting. Terrible combat and a poor combat heavy end, after a slow start and build up of characters and the world everything starts moving too fast, a large number of bad clichés, main characters ignoring bullet wounds, and there are too many stupid things that happen (even though there is a good reason behind the antagonist's plans that ties in with how the game has been building the setting and even random conversations). Often out of place flirting, terrible women's outfits, and sexual assaults, don't know to blame the PC-98 (that this was originally released for) or Kojima. Wordy and detailed descriptions of everything (from looking at some woman's boobs leading to a conversation about their space outfit, to individual information of every type of food on the dinner table, to a description of how a futuristic couch works) can kill pacing and ends up creating plot holes. Playstation version art is more detailed but blurry up close and changes to art makes it look more like a generic anime than the more interesting art you get in something like Snatcher or other PC-98 titles. They did a good job with the fan translation.

Reviewed on May 19, 2021


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