I found the game to be incredibly over-rated. The combat is absolutely trivial as it takes all of 3 loops to get the best guns and trinkets in the game and the AI is capable of nothing more than shooting a stationary target. It only gets worse as you complete your build and now I have silent steps, silent weapons, and more energy I can endlessly teleport while one-shotting things in the head with a magically silent gun. Takes me all of 3minutes to kill every single enemy in a level (except for the ones where they magically respawn if you walk too far away).
The actual game is linear as hell and can be completed in under 10 hours if you don't get distracted. And man, is getting distracted a waste of time. The main game is quite simple requiring very little actual problem solving as everything is carefully laid out for you. On the contrary, there are some more sophisticated puzzles that require clever solutions even moving objects limited to one map to another through creative means. The rewards for these elaborate puzzles? Usually just a purple mod or two. Hell, I did one puzzle that takes 3 full loops to complete and the reward was just a joke. Oh look, there's a bondage room in here. Get it? Bondage? Like... the sex thing? Isn't that just HILLARIOUS!?!?!?! Oh don't worry, there's also a single purple trinket on the table. Sure, basic AI enemies drop 3-5 trinkets and you already have every single trinket in the game but, here, have another copy of "You can hack stuff from far away"
The game runs out of Julianna dialogue 5 loops or so in and she literally tells you "I'm out of things to say so bye" and just doesn't talk anymore. Colt clicks his earpiece EVERY SINGLE TIME HE SPAWNS regardless.
And then, the multiplayer. OMG is it bad. Completely unplayable on the garbage peer to peer system. I've played 20 games and I'd say MAYBE 3 didn't have lag. Its an absolute joke. You won't notice it playing as Colt since your host but try playing Jules just to shoot a stationary Colt 3 times in the head with none of the shots registering and then poof hes behind you with a knife cuz actually you rubberbanded back and he was never where you saw him to begin with.
Oh, and the story. Not the place for spoilers but the answer to everything is.... everything.
Is it aliens? Ancient magic? Mind Powers? Scientific Breakthroughs? Yes. But also no. But also who fucking knows because we aren't actually going to explain anything beyond the absolute basics.
Lots of cool ideas, neat until you get deep enough to see the myriad of flaws. A 7/10 at best.
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