After setting up some parameters and making you way through a brief tutorial, you’re thrust right into a difficult situation.
This is a brief, tense little thrill ride that was built for multiple playthroughs. Console Edition has to offer in the gameplay department, you realize that a focus on narrative would necessitate a fundamental change in the mechanics. It’s not really a bad thing, but since the game got me interested in the cyberpunk world and the people inhabiting it, I did sort of wish there were more to know about them. But when you really get down to it, the main attraction here is the elegant nastiness of the campaign itself, which leaves the dialogue and character interaction to a few quips in between missions.
And sure, you’ve got a bunch of agents to take out into the field, each lovingly rendered in amazing pixel art with their own skills and quirks. Yes, there are plenty of characters - most notably Central, the always-present voice in your ear that for some reason reminded me of The Chief in the Carmen Sandiego games (and I mean that in a good way perhaps I just lack points of comparison in this area). Given the impressive style and spectacle of the game’s opening cutscene, I was originally surprised to find it didn’t have much of an emphasis on narrative.
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