This review contains spoilers
I enjoyed playing this!
The game play and story worked well.
Some stuff was just weird sometimes.
There is never any reason on why Mordred would see people in these weird masks when they lie or why it didn't really worked this one time. You could come up with a reason for this yourself - there are hints as to why - but for a game that spelled everything out to me to leave me with this one alone felt weird.
The female characters are...a choice. Probably bc the game is going for the noir themes and vibes. Hera is there to be saved and acts as rewards if you do the right thing or punishment if you do the bad thing by dying.
(I got the A and the D ending)
The Android chick going all ex machina on the guy was kind of a surprise until I remember this is noir. Women are saints, whores or dead. ¯\(ツ)/¯ And they aaaaall need saving!
I DID like some of the moral choices and not knowing where exactly they would lead every time. This was neat!
I don't remember if there was a trigger warning for transphobia, so here's mine: though the trans character is never reduced to their identity by the protags - she is so by the villain. There is dead naming and blackmail involved as are pics of her before her transitioning.
She was still my fave in the game bc I think she is interesting as a character. Probably bc she is a character you would usually not get in a noir as far as I know. Not like this at least.
Irritating was that the characters looked different in every cutscene.
I have no idea ho Mordred is supposed to look like bc in game looks different then cutscene A and Cutscene A makes him look different than Cutscene B and C and so on, and so on. Maybe bc they changes the artists a few times or something? It was just really jarring esp. in the epilogue scenes.
All in all I had a good time with the game. The political aspect was interesting, too and I liked how you could influence if and how the city came crashing down. This played nicely into the moral choices you have to make so that was really cool.
The game play and story worked well.
Some stuff was just weird sometimes.
There is never any reason on why Mordred would see people in these weird masks when they lie or why it didn't really worked this one time. You could come up with a reason for this yourself - there are hints as to why - but for a game that spelled everything out to me to leave me with this one alone felt weird.
The female characters are...a choice. Probably bc the game is going for the noir themes and vibes. Hera is there to be saved and acts as rewards if you do the right thing or punishment if you do the bad thing by dying.
(I got the A and the D ending)
The Android chick going all ex machina on the guy was kind of a surprise until I remember this is noir. Women are saints, whores or dead. ¯\(ツ)/¯ And they aaaaall need saving!
I DID like some of the moral choices and not knowing where exactly they would lead every time. This was neat!
I don't remember if there was a trigger warning for transphobia, so here's mine: though the trans character is never reduced to their identity by the protags - she is so by the villain. There is dead naming and blackmail involved as are pics of her before her transitioning.
She was still my fave in the game bc I think she is interesting as a character. Probably bc she is a character you would usually not get in a noir as far as I know. Not like this at least.
Irritating was that the characters looked different in every cutscene.
I have no idea ho Mordred is supposed to look like bc in game looks different then cutscene A and Cutscene A makes him look different than Cutscene B and C and so on, and so on. Maybe bc they changes the artists a few times or something? It was just really jarring esp. in the epilogue scenes.
All in all I had a good time with the game. The political aspect was interesting, too and I liked how you could influence if and how the city came crashing down. This played nicely into the moral choices you have to make so that was really cool.