I was wondering why such a cool looking game wasn't getting more attention. Then I played some of it and realised god this game has some bad writing. Why would they make a story based game, put so much effort into the graphics, but then hire such a shit writer?
Has anyone played this one? Does it get any better?
I especially get annoyed by bad use of profanity. I think a lot of writers grow up in polite middle class homes and then try to write swearing into their stories but don't actually know how to swear themselves so it comes off as awkward and unnatural. The dialogue in this game seems to be just a lot of 'frick's thrown around and sounds more like squabbling children than the cutting remarks of a private detective. !writecel you know what I mean?
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The voice acting is awful. It could work with either dialogue boxes or actually good VAs
I dont know why but voice actors get sucked into this genre vortex. Happens in anime all the time where they sound too much like anime or in this case too much like a video game. These voice actors just sound like pasty dorks and it really comes through
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