Where this game loses me is narratively, this series is based of a book and is frequently praised for it's narrative. But as someone who didn't read the books I felt like I was missing a ton of context in the story. There's so many story beats where you meet a random character for 3 seconds and Artyom decides to then follow them and agree to their every order because? reasons? You're supposed to care about these characters but the game never really bothers fleshing them out. Doesn't help that all of the dialogue in the game is delivered with very poor voice acting, and the main character, who's internal thoughts I am interested in hearing, is the only one who never speaks (outside of loading screens, which makes it even more jarring). Overall I think the big picture story and themes are interesting, but the story presentation and delivery is a massive miss.