Ok so you made one full playthrough and half another ? Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and for taking the time to read my article. While I didn't take the time to unlock every single bonus item and alternate agent, I am confident that I saw enough of the game to give the opinion that I did. I played through the game once fully and half again before the lack of variety started to dampen my enjoyment. I hope that, with what I've shared above, you will reconsider labeling my review as short-sighted. Is it in Hour 5 or Hour 50 or Hour 500? That makes a world of difference with a game like this. The variable is in where that point is for each individual gamer. This is why I mentioned it in the review while keeping it separate from the review at large.Īll things considered, the game is beautiful, atmospheric and fun to play up to a point. Had I known before playing it that it was a game designed for repeated play, I might not have bothered. However, there are also people (myself included) that will only do this for a select few games that really "wow" them, and this was not one of those games for me.
I had access to Agent Banks on my first playthough and unlocked her and another agent, as well as two Incognita programs (Parasite being one of them), when I finished the campaign, but I didn't feel that those variable do enough to change the overall dynamic of the game.Īs I stated in my review, there are people who enjoy playing through a game over and over to see every little tweak and bit of content, and they will really enjoy this game. However, I don't feel that the gameplay really lends itself to that many play-throughs without getting repetitive. So far i am at 23h spent on it, and i know i only discovered half to 2/3rd of the whole content.ĭon't get me wrong, I understand that the game is meant to be played over and over, a fact that I mentioned in my review. Then do a new run to either polish your initial way of choices, or to change it radically. But then, to fully explore every paths, and also enjoy the little details all around that are not essential to the main story, and then after you devoured one episode, pause a bit and realise which of the choices from one episode carries within itself or toward the next or even the one after. Through, most episodes can be rushed in 1h30 / 2h each. It is a bit the problem with reviews (no offense intended) nowadays, the game length is appraised and evaluated through short sighted criterias. By the time you will have unlocked at least half of the agents and incognita routines and at least tested experienced mode and experienced+ or regular "hard" mode, it will take many hours.
One game is by default of short length but one run doesnt make the entire game. One has to combine Internationale's wireless scanning/hacking with parasite to plan ahead the whole moving path of agents. And in fact, the parasite completely changes my way of playing, even if i restarted yet in beginner mode. But each unlockable radically change your way of playing.Īfter my first run in beginniner mode, i got two little things unlocked: parasite firewall breaking routine, that i could choose instead of good old fashionned "lockpick 1.0", and agent "Banks" (that saves you a lot of time with the security doors). Each run is different, many run may end into a dead end (or very difficult compared to initial playmode difficulty). Notice that at the end of a game run you get "experience" score for your whole game profile/installation. If you reduce the game to only one playthrough, well, you only will see a small portion of the whole game. So the replay value is rather huge, and that makes the game very long, indeed, to be able to unlock and experiment the difficulty modes and the additionnal starting agents or incognita programs that really change totally your way of playing. I humbly think you may had underlooked one point: it is strategy game with procedural generation. But the game cannot be reduced to "one playthrough and voila !" oh, and the plot twist at the end of a game is hilarious :). Indeed, one full run is "short", 72h, maybe 10-12 missions (yet in the options you can make any game/run being longer). could be completely adapted into a live boardgame on his own, theorically)Īnyway I am surprised you described the game as being "short". Similar but yet different, of course (and Invisible inc. The whole game really reminded me of the boardgame "Infiltration" from FFG publishern in the Android/Netrunner universe.
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