To start I feel like I should say that I've seen the show and about half of a playthrough of this game before playing it myself so I knew most of the things that were going to happen in the game. Those along with the dozens of glowing reviews I've seen for this game over the years have given me extremely high expectations for this game. Unfortunately this game was not able to reach those but it got pretty damn close. This game was incredible and I'm not even sure how to put the experience into words. The story and characters were all written amazingly and felt real, more so than nearly any other game I've played. It took me places that even as someone who has experienced a version of this story I still wasn't expecting. The arcs of the characters and how human they felt made the experience. None of these characters are good people but the game makes you sympathize and relate to their issues so perfectly. Other than the masterpiece of a story though, this game wasn't super special. Stealth was the highlight of the gameplay though because as someone who is not the biggest fan of stealth combat, I was engaged with it and the game made it feel really tense. The graphics of this remaster/remake were very good on a machine other than mine but unfortunately mine wasn't good enough to get it looking as good as it could. Other additional features with the remaster/remake were fun to mess around with and the gameplay modifiers will be helpful for future playthroughs, but I wish they would have been available from the start for players who struggle with games like this and just want to experience the story. All in all this game was amazing but there were some issues that made it not quite perfect for me. Definitely still a must play though

I had pretty high expectations for this game as I love 3rd person shooters and the gameplay looked really good. My expectations rose even higher when I saw it win action GOTY at the Game Awards. Somehow despite how high my expectations were this game still exceeded them. The gameplay was fast but still strategic. The gunplay feels really good and you have so much customization once you get the money to buy more parts. The boss fights were some of the best that I've seen in a game recently. There were some bosses that felt pretty easy and some that took me hours on their own but each was a blast to fight and had beautiful and imposing designs. The visuals were absolutely gorgeous. The raw graphics themselves weren't the best but the art style carried so hard. All of this would have been enough but the story was surprisingly really good. It was very slow and not super interesting in the first chapter but it gets really intense especially towards the end, and the ending was really impactful. When I chose the ending I did, I got scared I chose the "bad" ending, but the game justified my choice and it felt like a really satisfying ending. This game is a genuine masterpiece and I will definitely be coming back soon to complete the arena and new game plus.

This game is an amazing evolution of the original game. The story is a lot more developed, though this game is still pretty short. The psychological elements are a lot deeper in this game and it oddly reminded me a lot of the show Serial Experiments Lain, especially one of the endings that I won't go into but I really liked it as a fan of the show. If you liked the first game I definitely recommend this and if you didn't I feel like this game gives you a lot more than the original did so I would still say to give this a try. Overall a really interesting visual novel that's more than worth getting all of the endings