The hacking mini-game in Alpha Protocol is an exercise in frustration. As someone who struggles with visual tracking, I found it nearly impossible to complete, not because of poor planning or skill, but because the interface floods you with constantly shifting characters and gives you barely any time to find the static sequences. It's a nightmare for anyone with dyslexia or similar processing challenges. A game should challenge the player, not gate progress behind an inaccessible mechanic. This needs to be called out more, because it's not just "difficult," it's poorly designed.

Every one has that game, song, band, movie that is generally considered to be "bad", but that they really like. Alpha Protocol is definitely that for me lol. I didnt understand the hate back in the day and I wouldn't understand it now. The acting isnt amazing, but is leaps and bounds better than many big name games. The humor was good and your character feels real. Dialogue choice actually matters, too. Game is a gem of an RPG. The lack of jumping and traversal does suck, but it is even more tolerable now than it was in the past, because games today are just so awful im willing to forgive this in Alpha Prot.

Just play it. Trust.

pretty good