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actually i hadn't completed it on the last entry, now i did. it's really good on the gameplay department but it really loses me on the story, it comes off as very rushed, and even with the positive, pro-union message, it's done so poorly it's unbelievable.
I mean, first off, since your character has no interaction options, characters sometimes do stuff on your behalf, which is most evident when your co-worker, Lou, signs you up for the Union newsletter on your second day, which is really stupid to do from the standpoint of being risky for the Union, since they do not know what alliegances or values the protag might have off the bat (or if they're likely to be very easily pressured into giving them up, like how it happened with Kai), and also to involve somebody with the union who is not informed about the potential risk of even being caught with union messaging and not immediately reporting it is insanely dumb.
Then, at a time where the Union is being ACTIVELY TARGETED, to the point of sending in managers to investigate work crews, they publish a newsletter entry with Lou's full name and position in the company.
Then, at the end, when the Union gets a foothold into negotiations with the Company, they both trigger a policy change to ban the clones the company used in lieu of providing any sort of safeguards for the workers, and also make it so they are exempt from the cloning ban, INSTEAD of, again, providing the workers with any safeguards whatsoever.
I get that they wanted to give the game a post-end stage, but in an (ideally) story-driven mode, it would be kind of wanted to have it changing the gameplay. So, for example, you'd have less hazards in the ships, shorter shifts and less stringent quotas, at the cost of maybe for example nerfing your tools so that it would be harder to say, have a seat fly into your helmet at terminal velocity. Fuck it, you have a Freeplay mode already.
i know, it's a small indie studio and they probably would have to put dozens, if not hundreds of hours into implementing even one of my suggestions, but it would've been a much better game without the half baked plot put into it.

Reviewed on May 14, 2023


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