Recensioni di Gamedec - Definitive Edition

This game has a number of arrows in its quiver: -the premise is solid. Even though the cyberpunk, corporations-ridden setting is nothing to write home about, the profession of GameDec is enough to keep things fresh. -switching from one digital setting to another keeps the player engaged and even hyped pertaining the next level; -aesthetics are solid across the board, wether you're looking at in-game models, dialogue avatars or scenes design as a whole. Unfortunately, it ends up lacking in the departments that should have you interested in a cRPG in the first place: -NPCs are not memorable, and that's underselling it. Aside from Ken and maaaaaybe the CEO from the DLC case, there isn't a single character whose writing dares to dip below the surface; -the plot starts in an interesting place and then it manages to pull a turn that is somehow both out of nowhere and predictable (I won't go into further detail in order to avoid spoilers, but the game ends up revolving around the pseudo-SciFi mumbo jumbo that the first half oh so wisely keeps its distance from); -while there's a lot of branching when it comes to single cases, each and every single thread leads to the same ending, and you can "unlock" the harder ones by a single choice in the last 10 minutes of the game; it is narratively fitting, but quite disappointing nonetheless. In the end, the worst flaw of them all is how rushed this game feels, especiallt in the second half. There are interesting ideas aplenty, some of them even evading the cliches of such a historied genre, but none of the original ones gets to breathe and be developed in full. That being said, I will look forward to subsequent projects from this team :) There's a lot of good in this here title and it could be fixed without seismic changes. Here's hoping for the next one!