The main impression I got from this game was of two storylines that never quite gelled. There was the larger plot of the missing programmer and the broken AI, and then also the main character met a bunch of friends, but all those friends completely disappeared from the later acts as the main plot wrapped itself up. Maybe I was supposed to pursue one of them exclusively and ignore all the rest, to get them to make more of an impact on the story, but they were all single-minded enough (and prone to ignoring the gravity of social situations in favor of repetitive banter) that they all wore on me eventually. Also there was a huge amount of setup for a subplot that seemed to wind up only being an excuse for a character to run off with some files so the main character could chase her down without learning any of the other details.