Posted December 13, 2020
This game is what I was hoping for! I've personally had minimal problems, although admittedly I have a fast computer and the small glitches I have found haven't affected anything significant. Certainly haven't seen any problems that have truly broken immersion yet in my roughly 30 hrs.
Anyway, this is what I like best so far after a few days of playing:
1) Voice acting. I think it's great! Keanu did a good job, as did the male V voice actor and all the major NPCs so far. Actually, the male V sounds a lot like K.R.
2) Level design. It must have taken a *lot* of work to work all those levels so that you could use different approaches (stealth, hacking, mayhem). Gawd, the playtesting that must have taken! That's why we have GMs in real-life PnP games, so you don't have to anticipate every possible thing and can just wing it!
3) Really nailed the 90's Cyberpunk vibe. The character animations are nicely realistic, with great faces and outfits. The city looks cool. It captures the early cyberpunk era quite well. I like the writing as well, it's engaging, and even when some of the missions turn into something more like a scripted story (the "flathead" one comes to mind) it still feels like fun interactive fiction. I can see a lot of influences from literature like Snow Crash, Johnny Mnemonic, The Matrix, as well as the old PnP game.
Anyway, just wanted to throw some positive vibes out into the world. I'm happy and engaged, even if not everyone else is (including my wife, who hasn't seen me come out of the basement in 3 days)
Bede
Anyway, this is what I like best so far after a few days of playing:
1) Voice acting. I think it's great! Keanu did a good job, as did the male V voice actor and all the major NPCs so far. Actually, the male V sounds a lot like K.R.
2) Level design. It must have taken a *lot* of work to work all those levels so that you could use different approaches (stealth, hacking, mayhem). Gawd, the playtesting that must have taken! That's why we have GMs in real-life PnP games, so you don't have to anticipate every possible thing and can just wing it!
3) Really nailed the 90's Cyberpunk vibe. The character animations are nicely realistic, with great faces and outfits. The city looks cool. It captures the early cyberpunk era quite well. I like the writing as well, it's engaging, and even when some of the missions turn into something more like a scripted story (the "flathead" one comes to mind) it still feels like fun interactive fiction. I can see a lot of influences from literature like Snow Crash, Johnny Mnemonic, The Matrix, as well as the old PnP game.
Anyway, just wanted to throw some positive vibes out into the world. I'm happy and engaged, even if not everyone else is (including my wife, who hasn't seen me come out of the basement in 3 days)
Bede