been working my way through my backlog and figured i'd try this since it got tons of glowing reviews at launch... i am genuinely flabbergasted that this game scored so highly since it's mediocre as hell and a step down from arkanes previous work. the horrible cringe dialogue and dreadful enemy AI were almost enough to make me drop the game within the first hour but i pushed through and a couple hours later i still can't find any motivation to keep playing. the characters are annoying, shooting is atrocious and feels like ♥♥♥♥, combat is ridiculously easy with no option to increase the difficulty... i could go on but this just feels like a knockoff dishonored minus the fun and i can already see how repetitive things are gonna get after the first few loops and i'm just done. being as generous as possible this is a 6 or 7 at best but i guess a game looking pretty and letting you shoot things is enough to earn a 9 or 10 score from most major review publications these days

I'm not really sure what a lot of these reviews expect. "Bad writing" is just 1980's cheese, the entire theme of the game. That aside, it's a sandbox with even more polished Dishonored mechanics. It's nothing special, but it's fun.

The game is good, has a good story, and is entertaining. You have to earn power-ups by killing certain bosses. It's not like Dishonored, where you can have multiple powers. It has three endings. Recommended.