I walk into a hallway of an overrun facility, the walls cracked open, bodies hung on robotic tentacles, blood stains the floor, when suddenly a lullaby starts to play. I feel the confines of the walls pressuring me, I feel trapped in this small place with only one way to go, forward. I slow my pace, cautious, a little frightened. Then suddenly the main character swears a few times, insults his glove and just ruins the entire atmosphere. I kept playing a little bit on from that moment, but truly it was then that I gave up on the game.

I really wanted to like this, but it's going to be one of the first games I've ever returned. The world building feels fantastic, the story seemed like it was going to interesting places, the music? Awesome. All of this is let down by some of the worst voice acting I have ever heard in my entire life. It's stilted, sped up in places, randomly cut short in others, the subtitles straight up do not keep up half the time, and then sprinkled on top of this sundae of bad are terrible lines. I don't think the best voice actors in the world could read this material and make it sound convincing, charismatic, or funny.

You may think that it's a little bit much to bash the game for something like voice acting, the problem is the main character talks, all, the, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, time. He refuses to shut up. I can't walk through a door without him saying something dumb to his talking glove. Yeah, they even added a glove that can talk in order to increase the amount of bad dialogue.

I could maybe, MAYBE, forgive all that if the gameplay was at least fun, but it just isn't. It feels like a bad copy of Bioshock, clunky, unfun, and boring. I obviously didn't get massively far into the game, but the fact is any time the game gave me a reason to want to continue, the main character would open his mouth, and I was reminded I'd have to spend even more time with him. I'd much rather bash my head into a brick wall, instead though I'll try and get the refund and move on with my life.

I walk into a hallway of an overrun facility, the walls cracked open, bodies hung on robotic tentacles, blood stains the floor, when suddenly a lullaby starts to play. I feel the confines of the walls pressuring me, I feel trapped in this small place with only one way to go, forward. I slow my pace, cautious, a little frightened. Then suddenly the main character swears a few times, insults his glove and just ruins the entire atmosphere. I kept playing a little bit on from that moment, but truly it was then that I gave up on the game. I really wanted to like this, but it's going to be one of the first games I've ever returned. The world building feels fantastic, the story seemed like it was going to interesting places, the music? Awesome. All of this is let down by some of the worst voice acting I have ever heard in my entire life. It's stilted, sped up in places, randomly cut short in others, the subtitles straight up do not keep up half the time, and then sprinkled on top of this sundae of bad are terrible lines. I don't think the best voice actors in the world could read this material and make it sound convincing, charismatic, or funny. You may think that it's a little bit much to bash the game for something like voice acting, the problem is the main character talks, all, the, god, damn, time. He refuses to shut up. I can't walk through a door without him saying something dumb to his talking glove. Yeah, they even added a glove that can talk in order to increase the amount of bad dialogue. I could maybe, MAYBE, forgive all that if the gameplay was at least fun, but it just isn't. It feels like a bad copy of Bioshock, clunky, unfun, and boring. I obviously didn't get massively far into the game, but the fact is any time the game gave me a reason to want to continue, the main character would open his mouth, and I was reminded I'd have to spend even more time with him. I'd much rather bash my head into a brick wall, instead though I'll try and get the refund and move on with my life.