The world building, storytelling and immersion are all really top notch.
Girt, under my direction, has lived incredibly varied and interesting lifetimes.
I really enjoyed the clever little branches that were introduced in many dialogues and it was a pleasant surprise to discover that many decisions were not inconsequential but had lasting impact.
Potential Spoilers
The only improvements I would suggest that would have enhanced my own experience would be:
- The ability to skip sections once completed if all branches have been followed. The factory worker path up to where I got mugged and refused to hand over the chump change. Sorting all those boxes again and signing everyone up for the union...I just can't right now. I understand I may not have decided to help the union or whatever and that would have changed the available options so I can see it being a tricky request. The same to get to the police office / fixer branch. Some of the academy mini-games were pretty brutal. I understand there is value in re-playability but I just found my first 8 or so minutes of game play to be a rinse and repeat of the dialogues and choices to get to the same branch points.
- A fast travel for the train sequence unless there is a new interaction available.
- A few of the mini-games in the web version had controls that were a little unresponsive. I noticed it most on the police academy hurdle course (the first race always seems more clumsy than the second...that might be by design) and target shooting. The target shooting the X axis targets would sometimes be awkward to get to and I was wondering if it was even possible to pass the test or if it was used to force you to quit becoming a police officer. The ballot switching was also a little strange but that just might have been me.
- It would have been great to know what dialogue options were decisions that impacted the story, and even what options had been previously selected.
All in all a really nice experience that was really enjoyable.
I ended up:
-As a squatter that was kicked out for Mapota addiction
-A fixer
-A police officer that was liberal with the use of the truncheon and was investigating a dead body in the acid
-Being Killed by a thief after winning the horse race
- An artist that both sold a painting and made the mistake of telling someone that I was a smuggler
- As someone that past the exam but found there to be no jobs available at the job fair
- Chancellor elect and became (ashamedly) a member of the Gears and Levers club.
Again, really nice experience!