So, like, most of the game, you're Jacket Dude, and you see Glasses Dude in the in-between segments. Near the beginning of the game, Glasses Dude mentions that you've lost your girlfriend.You're doing missions wherein you kill a whole mess of dudes, because of these calls you get that tell you to do so. At one point, you fight and kill Biker Dude in the phone company building. At another point, you decide to
not murder some woman and save her and she comes to live with you for awhile. Meanwhile, there's these in-between segments where you're talking to the Three Masked Dudes.
Then shit goes crazy and Glasses Dude tells you that everything you see isn't real, and there's that dead body on the ground. Then Glasses Dude is dead, and there's another guy in his place, much less friendly to you, and there's, like, dead bodies everywhere in the in-between bits, and they talk to you and stuff. Meanwhile the girl you saved is living with you.
Then you come home and find the girl dead in the bathroom, and a masked dude sitting on your couch. He shoots you. The game says "press R to retry."
You come back to life at your bed, re-enter the living room, and there's you on the ground, dead. You talk to mask dude a bit more, go into a room that shouldn't exist, and see a dude in a hospital bed. Then you become that dude.
Then you wake up and find yourself in a hospital, having apparently been in a coma.
At this point, I thought "oh okay, everything up to this point has been a coma-dream, now here's where things get real."
You escape the hospital and go back to your place, which is now a crime scene. You reach in the laundry and put your jacket and pants back on, and head to the police station to murder all the cops within and then you find the location of the Russian boss or something? So I guess maybe the whole first part
wasn't just a coma-dream? Or was it? What? And during all this, you're wearing the same masks that you were before... so... I dunno, this is the part where the game loses me.
So you go to the place and kill the boss dude, and then you go to a back room and find an old dude and kill him, step out onto the balcony, smoke, roll credits.
Then we go back in time to earlier, and you're Biker Dude. You're rejecting the phone calls, trying to find out where they're coming from instead. While trying to find the source of the phone calls, you go to the phone company, murder everyone within, get the next piece of the trail, and then boom, in comes Jacket Dude, and you... you kill him. He dies.
You then proceed to eventually find the real source of the whole thing, these two phone company dudes (one of whom Jacket Dude saw (or didn't? because he was DEAD and/or in a COMA???) a couple of times over the course of the story. They're all mysterious and don't reveal much and you kill them, roll credits.
Then you
collect all the collectibles and solve the puzzle and get the password to the computer just before the last bit and learn almost nothing else and it's extremely vague and disappointing.
So like... are these two separate timelines, two different stories, then? How much of Jacket Dude's story was real? Were the Three Masked Dudes real, or just coma-people? Who was Glasses Dude? Was he just a figment of your coma-magination, or a real person, at some point? Etc. etc. I'm going to bed now.
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