One of the best games you've never played. The story is fascinating, rich and complex, with a compelling protagonist lost in a sea of data unsure of who she was, or who she should be. The world is ruled by memories and their gatekeepers, positive feelings the memories can conjure contribute to memories becoming another form of drug to take the pain away. The world around you is sullen, rotten, filled with advertisements assaulting your senses from thin air, through your AR augmentations.

This game is a wonderful, awful experience that isn't to be missed. If you're reviewing the actual game part of the game, it will be average. The combat Arkham standard issue, with the extensive move customizer being little more than assigning new effects to the same animations.

But tell me you don't feel a sense of raw power, and of horror, at playing god with the minds around you. Grabbing the face of a guard who thinks you're a terrorist, and overloading his memories with junk data, sending him flying backwards at the shock of it all with a disgusting POP. It's the most satisfying, most terrifying sound.

The soundtrack is just as glitched out and confusing as the experience of the story, the aesthetic primarily brought about because the composer is just as lost as the player is in trying to understand the plot of this game, and it bleeds through into the music. Dear GOD, the music is worth the price of admission alone. Buy it on iTunes.

The art book is delicious cyberpunk imagry. Every frame of this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gorgeous, a feast for the eyes, and at the same time, a warning. Warning what's around the corner of social media, when the soul is on the market for the public to dissect and reassemble. And you, as Nilin, get to play with that data and change the core of people you meet when it serves your ends. The game forces you to take a long, long look at the morality of that, and then snaps you back to be chased by a gunship spitting quotes from Little Red Riding Hood.

I bought this full price on PS3 when it came out and nobody cared to buy it. But everyone needs to play this game. It's a head trip. It's a nightmare. It's an experience worth having, and to explain it in too much detail does the game a disservice. Go buy this, play it, then absorb and think about what you just played. Then feel sad that all anyone will remember DontNod for is the tumblr video game.