4/5 - Good

It was quite an enjoyable ride. Interesting cyberpunk style world with combat that reminded me of the Arkham batman games. I found the graphics were very good for such an old game, it's holding up quite well for its age. The music and sound design were also quite enjoyable.

However there is one major flaw in this game that must be mentioned. The level design is very linear, which is fine, but they keep locking doors and blocking passages behind you, so you regularly get cut-off and can't go back while you're searching for hidden power-ups and collectibles. That was super frustrating. Anyways, at some point you stop caring and just focus on the story...

1) It doesn't match the screenshots. It's a mix of a fighting simulator on top of a platformer aka the worst camera angles ever that constantly change. I was buying this for cyberpunk and plot, but even on the lowest difficulty setting there's more fights than anything else. And that is NOT fun. Not to mention that you have to click [TAB] to assign new combinations and, goodnes gracious, it is so tedious and drags you out of gameplay immediately. Any kind of immersion gone.

2) I require subtitles in order to 'hear' 'cause I absolutely can't play without subtitles. The subtitles are WAY too small, I can barely read them and it hurts my eyes. SInce I can't hear what they're saying, it's unplayable for me. There's no way to change the size of subtitles in game (basically ZERO accesibility). I tried googling, and only thread on Steam talks about it, and the solution that the player offered (from 2013, mind you) doesn't work for me since changing the game files results in a fatal error and in the game crashing. I shouldn't need to try and fix a game I already paid for in order to comfortably play it. I verified the game files, the font changed back and the error fixed itself, but the subtitles are way too small again and I just can't play like that. I can't focus on either the gameplay or the subtitles.

3) There are soooo many flashes which can cause a seizure (and it also hurts my eyes and my head).

4) The controls aren't made for a mouse and a keyboard, it's a poorly done controller/PS3 port. No matter how much you increase mouse sensitivity, it still has that weird restriction of a controller camera look, while also simultaneously being too fast. Horrible smoothing, horrible controls.

5) The voice acting falls flat sometimes. It does feel like an old(er) game.

6) Lastly, I reached the first "Remix memories" part. It doesn't tell you what key to mash, so I had to try and guess the control button for that action. Saw just the beginning of the mechanic of the remix, quit the game, requested a refund.

So bad on so many levels. Boring and annoying as hell. Absolutely do not recommed. Watch it on youtube if you must, you'll save yourself a lot of disappiointment and time wasted if you're like me.

berbat terrible