Worth it? help players! Doubts about the game.

[Jean Dias]

Hello, I'm more of a casual player but I'm also looking for good experiences.

I wanted to know first:

- Does the game have a good story? How many endings? Does the story of the game end well? (I hate games with open endings).
- I'm Brazilian and my English is basic. But I know a lot of Spanish, am I going to get along in the game?
- How many hours of gameplay?
- Has difficulty levels?

[Gillsing]

- There are two major choices, which lead to one of three endings. I thought the story was pretty good, but I'm more focused on freedom and gameplay.

- Spanish is available as a language option in the game. For English I guess you could check a playthrough to see if you can keep up?

- I'm slow and meticulous, so it probably took me 40 hours to play through. If you're quick you might be able to do it in 10 hours or less. Certainly so if you skip a lot of stuff.

- For combat you can choose between Classic and Casual. But most of the difficulty comes from trying to do stuff without allocating skill points to the skills that would help you do that stuff.


If you as a casual player want an easier difficulty, I suggest saving 3 skill points until you've gone through the Augmented Reality tutorial at Tony's. Then use those 3 skill points to bring the AR skill to Level 2, and the rest of the game will become easy, as you'll be able to hack enemies, cameras, turrets and vending machines without losing barely any energy at all. Without maxed AR, hacking things in Augmented Reality is so difficult that you're likely to only be able to do it once before you run out of Energy and need a refill. Don't be like the people complaining about it - git gud from the get-go.

If you have trouble hacking computer systems, Hacking is the skill to invest in, and some of the bosses are in cyberspace, so the skill won't be wasted no matter what.

One skill point in Close Combat is nice and convenient once you've figured out how to punch people without them getting to hurt you back, as the attacks beyond that first skill point are kicks or knockdowns, and that's inconvenient, as it slows down the repetitive punching of armoured soldiers who won't go down with the Takedown move. I used the Takedown move on just about anyone it would work on, because fair fights hurt a lot if you're not good at fighting games.

I tried firearms, but couldn't make them work very well. I suppose it was possible to shoot people with the augmentation that let me see their vision cones, as I could then shoot at them from beyond the screen. But that isn't very satisfactory gameplay in my opinion.

Lock-Picking should be maxed, since some safes contain data cubes that give skill points, so if you pick the lock of every safe, you'll be able to get back the points you spend.

Charisma should be maxed if you want the 'best' results from a few quests. But largely it doesn't matter much. Sometimes it's even a bad idea to rely on smooth-talk, as you can use it to bypass the 'regular' quest and miss out on XP.

[Jean Dias]

Originally posted by Gillsing:

- There are two major choices, which lead to one of three endings. I thought the story was pretty good, but I'm more focused on freedom and gameplay.

- Spanish is available as a language option in the game. For English I guess you could check a playthrough to see if you can keep up?

- I'm slow and meticulous, so it probably took me 40 hours to play through. If you're quick you might be able to do it in 10 hours or less. Certainly so if you skip a lot of stuff.

- For combat you can choose between Classic and Casual. But most of the difficulty comes from trying to do stuff without allocating skill points to the skills that would help you do that stuff.


If you as a casual player want an easier difficulty, I suggest saving 3 skill points until you've gone through the Augmented Reality tutorial at Tony's. Then use those 3 skill points to bring the AR skill to Level 2, and the rest of the game will become easy, as you'll be able to hack enemies, cameras, turrets and vending machines without losing barely any energy at all. Without maxed AR, hacking things in Augmented Reality is so difficult that you're likely to only be able to do it once before you run out of Energy and need a refill. Don't be like the people complaining about it - git gud from the get-go.

If you have trouble hacking computer systems, Hacking is the skill to invest in, and some of the bosses are in cyberspace, so the skill won't be wasted no matter what.

One skill point in Close Combat is nice and convenient once you've figured out how to punch people without them getting to hurt you back, as the attacks beyond that first skill point are kicks or knockdowns, and that's inconvenient, as it slows down the repetitive punching of armoured soldiers who won't go down with the Takedown move. I used the Takedown move on just about anyone it would work on, because fair fights hurt a lot if you're not good at fighting games.

I tried firearms, but couldn't make them work very well. I suppose it was possible to shoot people with the augmentation that let me see their vision cones, as I could then shoot at them from beyond the screen. But that isn't very satisfactory gameplay in my opinion.

Lock-Picking should be maxed, since some safes contain data cubes that give skill points, so if you pick the lock of every safe, you'll be able to get back the points you spend.

Charisma should be maxed if you want the 'best' results from a few quests. But largely it doesn't matter much. Sometimes it's even a bad idea to rely on smooth-talk, as you can use it to bypass the 'regular' quest and miss out on XP.

choices for two major choices is in the final late game? Or if I make a bad end, do I have to replay every game again? this is frustrating.

[Gillsing]

There are no 'bad ends' among the three main endings. The first major choice, at the end of the secret enemy base, is a choice between two factions. And once you get to the very end of the game you get to choose between supporting your chosen faction, or do a third thing. So, you make two choices, which lead to one of three endings. First A or B, then (A/B) or C.

You can keep however many saved games you feel like, so if you want to see all three main endings you can just replay from the end of the secret enemy base. But after that part of the game the only thing that's left is the 'epilogue' in the open world city, at which point you can follow up on a few of the NPCs you've interacted with. So if you want to see all of those good or bad endings, you'll pretty much have to replay the entire game.