Well... okay. So I've put some more time into this game and uh, my opinion on this game is starting to sour.
I haven't finished it but I think I'm real close. Minor Spoilers, but I'm past the part where the game starts you on the 20th day of Novemeber, goes back in time, and then fasts-forwards to December 2nd. I keep thinking "this must be the 2nd to last level" but the game keeps going. So, in a sense, the game is beating my super-low expectations of length. It's actually not that short, really--from my off-again-on-again playing sessions.
My biggest complaint is the plot and dialogue writing take a huge shitter after the point where (mid-game spoiler) Perceval dies.Everything the main character does from that point is just stupid and he feels like an angst-filled twenty-something bent on revenge and not in a cool way. Isigraine, who at the beginning of the game seemed like a competent, well-written female supporting character, turns into this jealous, petty love-interest. There are new supporting characters that help out the main character even though he's acting like a total dick. There's a really obvious betrayal that you see coming a million miles away and makes the main character--this guy that at least pretends to be a detective--look like an idiot.
It just sucks.
This game is a lot like Destiny in that the art team and gunplay is fun but the story is such garbage that it actively turns you off from playing it. Only at least unlike Destiny this game has the promise of being short and merciful whereas Destiny asks that you grind out a bunch of content for a measly nugget of story that isn't even that good. Blech.
2 or 3 stars is about right for this game. Hey, hey AAA game studios... get some better writers. Please.
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