I, Cyborg Reviews

It's pretty bland. Never cared for a single character. Weak plot. All choices obviously depend on stats every time, which takes away a lot of immersion, as there's like 4 or 5 skills in total.

I, Cyborg took me around 4 hours to play from start to finish. It is one of those games where you need to consider your actions, since there's always a chance that what you'll try to do, will fail. I liked the game, I've replayed it already, and I'm sure I could replay it many more times. The game has a lot of variety, it will be different depending on who you ally yourself with, what ship you buy, what upgrades etc.. The story unfolds around your choices and it may even lead to your death in the end. It is worth the full price.

I’ve enjoyed reading through this game multiple times over the years, and while it’s true that the choices only impact the story modestly at best and can be quite unforgiving stat-wise. It’s enough to keep the game interesting, and there are many colorful characters to get to know. The romances, however, came across as a bit rushed, and I never felt as close to any of them as I would’ve liked, but other than that, it was pretty good. (7/10)

The concept of this game was interesting when I read about it. I'm not sure how I feel about the stat mechanics, but I really enjoyed the story, and that's what interests me the most. Positives: -Not too many characters and not an insignificant amount either. I especially liked Ypsilanti. -Everything feels properly resolved at the end, and I was satisfied with it. Hopefully there might be a sequel. -I like the moral and ethical dilemmas that come from copying a human and putting their personality, memories and face into a cyborg. But I also like that you can choose to not be burdened by that, if you want. -It felt a little lengthier than the usual Choice of Games novels. -[spoiler] By the end, I was a cyborg copy of a cyborg copy of Ypsilanti, co-piloting a ship with the real Ypsilanti. That's pretty cool. [/spoiler] Negatives: -There is a big focus on stats. You're kind of forced to only pick the two that you started with, and I'm pretty sure they don't level up naturally. But there are also some choices that are hard to link to the correct stats. -Nearly every character has a weird sounding name to me. I find it a little bit off putting when I can't pronounce most of the names in a story. This is more of a nitpick, though. I was expecting a lot when I saw this game, and I was impressed with what I got. Another one I feel like I will play again. A solid 8/10.

Choice of robots is much better game, this felt like a drag to finish. Also is annoying how it keeps saying cyborg when it means a android or a replica. The story isnt very good either. As you can see I didnt like it, I like this type of games but the story in this one is poopoo. Whats the point of being able to evolve skills if you always have to pick the one you chose from the beggining? because if you dont you are done. Get another game.

Kudos to Tracey Canfield for putting together some of the most exciting coherent, well thought-out, story and character rich, cohesive choice games I've played yet... and i've played a lot of these. I love the choices we can make and how it affects who we are and how we evolve as a character is simply a marvel... the stats and personal character development don't feel tact on like many other games like this feel. One of the best Choice games to date.

Nope, this game is simply to stat heavy. Instead that your character grows while playing the game, All mainskills are chosen at the beginning. And an extremely big amount of choices are just statchecks. As an example it works pretty much like this: At the beginning of the game you can put 4 Points in the skills A, B, C, D & E. So you are either a master of one or none. And a lot of choices look like this: "Do you want to use skill A, B, C, D or E ?" And the skills that you don't put points in can't be used at all because you pretty much always fail miserably with them even though your character is always "confident" with them. So with every choice that you make you need to hope that your stats in the background are high enough to even make that course of action even possible. Which overall kills immersion so much, that I didn't really enjoy the story , because you can derail so easily from the path you would take, simply because of one single failed statcheck. (there is no rewind, or checkpoints btw) And after the finale was also a statcheck which abruptly ended the game, I simply got to the point where I would loved to refund the game and erase it from my memory because it taints all the great experiences I had with other Choice of Games. P.S. This isn't the only fault this game has but to describe the others I would have to get more into detail and I simply don't want to waste anymore time on this game. Edit: Okay after finding a way to cheat the shit out of this game and put all my stats to the max, I came to the conclusion that this game is pretty okay, not good but okay. It still has other problems but if you take the whole stat-system out of the equation it gets a whole lot more readable.

This one really took me back to the times of Choice of Robots - that level of quality. Awesome humor and extremely many meaningful choices, decent length and a very satisfying ending that felt wrapped up all around (at least in my case). I will definitely be re-reading this one and I recommend this book to anyone eager to try Choice of Games for the first time or is a long time reader.

Like so many CYOA's, this one presents choices that will only succeed if you pass a 'skill check.' Basically every 'choice' is presented this way, meaning if you want to 'succeed,' you're simply choosing what correlates with your highest stat. In other words they aren't 'choices' at all--but tests to see if you can read the author's mind to see what the unclear, confusing descriptions are supposed to mean. So you make a choice and WHOOPS! The author didn't mean what you thought they did and it correlated with a stat you haven't focused on so YOU FAIL! SO FUN! Here's the idiocy of this design in a nutshell; 1. Start the game and establish your 'build' by choosing your strengths with the first few choices 2. Completely ignore every choice that doesn't seem like it uses one of your chosen strengths for the rest of the story Does that sound like a 'CHOOSE your own adventure' to you? Because to me it represents the very antithesis of choice, and an experience I found intensely unsatisfying.

I'm gonna keep this short, cause I tend to create unfocused reviews if I go on for too long. The games a really good RPG with strong character focuses. You really feel like you're playing as the character you've created. It's got good writing and may very well be the best thing these devs have made. If you are at all interested, buy it. Edit: After replaying it, I'd say it's good enough to actually want a sequel.