I don't know why this exists, it's an extremely unfocused and muddled project that doesn't even remotely come together. It's an open world except it's covered in deadly fog that prevents you from exploring and it's entirely empty and devoid of things to do, so what's the point? Ah, do the repetitive busy work and you get to dispell the fog and explore more and get even more repetitive busy work to do! Screw that, everything is the same and you see the whole core loop in the first hour. The sheer overuse of detective vision in order to proceed is just comical. It's so ridiculously in your face about how much busywork it has, every time I open the map it takes a full minute to take control from me and slowly hover over every new icon on the map hoping to tempt me to check the sidequests out. It has some of the clunkiest and worst feeling FPS combat I've ever played. The story is incredibly short and has almost nothing going for it - you play as the most generic guy ever, with a stereotypical hardboiled cop who doesn't play by the rules in your head, and the rest of the cast basically doesn't exist. Was I seriously supposed to care for motorcycle woman (Rinko? I don't remember), who died about two hours after I met her, who only talked to me briefly maybe two times? Ah yes, let's say and explain nothing about KK until the final hour and a half, that'll make you connect with him! Hard to care about anything when nothing is ever explained or spelled out and everything ultimately boils down to things happening for the sake of filling time. The entire walking simulator segment of going through dull retread environments while you hear Akito and Mari not having a good relationship was such a slog. The first session I played it, I was enjoying hunting for lore and such until the 20th text message or scrawled post it note of a dead unnamed character who clearly had no relevance or anything interesting to say - maybe put even just ONE interesting story into any of these scattered lore bits? Huge disappointment in every regard. The best part of the game was the entire stupid bit where the villain used force lightning on the corpse of your sister and then inexplicably fell down a hole, just an absolutely impossible cutscene to take seriously even though it was meant to be setting up the final battle.