Beat the demo so far, but only with 2 days to spare (cause I wanna talk with Isaiah, and I grabbed all the evidence since I wasn't sure if it was optional). I really like the art direction and premise, though I found some of the decisions very frustrating. Particularly, while in the first layer I thought our protagonist mostly seemed to have the option of being intelligent and competent but naive, uninformed, and out of her depth, the second layer I felt she got stuck with the idiot ball a bit much and I didn't like that.
Characters from my favorite to least favorite, though I have been avoiding side stories except Isaiah's in the hopes of building up enough time before execution to do something dramatic later, so I'm sure many characters will have been missed which is no fault of theirs:
Most Liked:
- Gardener
- Lucia Trattoria
- Niemi
- Prof. Naysmith
- Ms. Sable (protagonist)
- Marciferous
- Kieran
- Overly helpful tutorial guard
Neutral:
- Walraven Kask
- Irene
- Avery
- Alma
- Isaiah
- Aunt and Uncle
- The general populace of the city, onscreen
- Grandfather
- Trial Judge
- Quayle
Least Disliked:
- Mr. Lutwidge
- Guards at the bridge to the Faith district
- Guards drinking on the job who then also assault you in 2nd layer Bad End.
- The general populace of the city, offscreen
- Myrra
I quite liked Trattoria's devotion to actual justice and good civic governance, despite her position as an antagonist. I really don't like how unintelligent, incompetent, and arrogant Fen Myrra is, and how unwilling to reject her idiocy the main character frequently is. An example is the conversation after the 3rd blood harvest-- it's pretty clear that Marciferous two days ago wouldn't do that, and if it was any of the options suggested certainly wouldn't have chosen Quayle. She also recently drastically changed her behavior after being taking into a private 1-on-1 space by the obvious villain who's promoting racism. And, like, we should be keeping an eye out for someone with mind control powers, obviously, after last time and the introductory exposition about what we're doing wrt the corruption.
Anyhow, the game is good fun regardless and I look forward to chapter 3. I just hope that this doesn't end up suddenly ruining all the characters and subplots and turning terrible like Medieval Cop :(