HBS's banger of a trilogy. We'll likely never see another SR game from them, which is unfortunate but we'll always have what they made here.

I really enjoyed Shadowrun and Dragonfall. Honestly, in those games the writing felt a bit "teenage fan-fiction" at times, but it sufficed. Here, it's just bad. It's amateur in every sense, but the worst part is it goes on and on and ON. NPCs have long, pointless backstories and dialog options that I think the writer felt would help flesh out the world more, but it all becomes a blur of mind-numbing tedium. Whoever wrote this has never heard the expression, "Sometimes less is more". This is REALLY BAD in a game that's supposed to be very story-driven but put me into skim reading mode within just a couple hours.

One of my favorite games! Im a huge tabletop convert but gaddamn that system was hard to learn!! Like a university course just to figure out the rules!! So I donated and monitored the Returns kickstarter- it hit the "requisite" concepts- but that game had flaws. Its the only one in the triology I didnt bother finishing. Dragonfall and Hong Kong delivered on the initial promise and Im so grateful I got to immerse myself into the sixth world!! Dragonfall is super good but its late game is sort of wonky in that you go from a quest based system that has multiple victory conditions to a 3 hour grind of pure hellish combat- lol!

Hong Kong was a gift. If youre a CRPG guy- you have to take this one for a spin! Dragonfall gets major points for giving its characters both compelling backstories AND some fairly clever adventure/run tie ins- but Hong Kong tripples down! So much interplay between the RP and the quests/runs/combat- thats really my main issue with these games and SRHK satisfied my stupidly niche itch and then some. It feels wierd to type- but yet again the final part gets ridiculously combat heavy- but tbh I think that plays to this games strengths. You use a few chracacter upgrades and perks to give you bonuses outside of combay- but at the end of the day youre building a min/max cyberpunk fiend whose not here to talk about roleplaying- hes here to street up some samurais...