In Neo-San Francisco, a vibrant city of low life and high tech, you will witness the world’s first sapient robot learning to grow and live as you become embroiled in the darkest scandal of 2064.
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Great pixel artwork and an ok soundtrack are probably the games strongest points.
The voice acting is very hit or miss, with some of the bigger misses coming from internet personalities. I get the want to boost marketing for your game by hiring popular YouTubers to do some voice work, but the overall quality suffers from it.
The story is about what you would expect if you were to read a mid 2010's fanfic. Dialogue is stiff, all subtlety is thrown out the door as it bonks you over the head with its themes and messages. Characters either act like assholes or preachers. For a game that is 99% storytelling, the writing left a lot to be desired.
There is a serious lack of puzzles or things to do as well to distract from the writing. Most of the game is spent listening to characters talk. At least the main character who you will spend most of your time talking to is relatively well done in both writing and voice acting compared to the rest of the cast.
The voice acting is very hit or miss, with some of the bigger misses coming from internet personalities. I get the want to boost marketing for your game by hiring popular YouTubers to do some voice work, but the overall quality suffers from it.
The story is about what you would expect if you were to read a mid 2010's fanfic. Dialogue is stiff, all subtlety is thrown out the door as it bonks you over the head with its themes and messages. Characters either act like assholes or preachers. For a game that is 99% storytelling, the writing left a lot to be desired.
There is a serious lack of puzzles or things to do as well to distract from the writing. Most of the game is spent listening to characters talk. At least the main character who you will spend most of your time talking to is relatively well done in both writing and voice acting compared to the rest of the cast.
I had never heard of this game, but it was in my Steam library somehow. I assume it was part of a bundle I bought. I had a ton of fun when I played this. The characters were fun and the story was engaging.
It's a fairly charming game with surprisingly fun gameplay sections, specially for a point and click, but some stuff such as the writing and voice acting does feel amateurish.
Also I really really want that robot. Don't ask for what.
Also I really really want that robot. Don't ask for what.
I'm not really one for visual novels, but his one leans more on the adventure game stylings of the old Lucasarts games I really liked at the time. Really excited for Neurodiver!
Great visual novel, self-contained story inside a world that's apparently expanded in some other games! I love Turing dearly, I have fond memories of it. A little bit heavy-handed and of-its-time with certain ways its activism is portrayed.
I havent played this game in years, so i might have to replay to give a thorough critique, which i feel it needs, as a 2014 SJW game. I was there, as a 2014 SJW. so i feel this criticism is important. I actually wrote and rewrote this for a VERY long time, lmfao. The story's fine, characters are loveable, turing's there, whatever. My main contention is with actually one of my favorite characters, Jess, who has undergone a hybridization surgery to save her life, and looks like a cat woman. In this world, hybrids are humans who have decided for whatever reason to medically alter their genes to have animal parts, or something like that. They are used as this game's allegory for fantasy oppression, basically. or sci fi oppression. either way, creating an unreal class of people to be oppressed is not something that games should do unless they're prepared to really carry it through, and do the research. In this game, the Human Protection Act exists to make sure hybrids don't overtake humanity. Which... Remember that hybrids are human and these are all just references to real life, mostly racist legislature that the game updates to imagine in a cyberpunk society. Okay. So, you make a microaggression towards Jess, and she of course gets mad, tells her life story to you in detail so you understand... how bad hybrids have it, i guess?
It's just deeply uncomfortable to say something that you, as a player, probably can see will not be taken well, have to say it, and then see it not taken well! And that's where your knowledge of hybrids comes from. And i just feel like there couldve been a better way that feels way less exploitative of this woman's trauma, and way less personally offensive to me as a disabled person who gets a lot of this in my real life already and whatnot... And All this for a racism metaphor. Every confrontation with Jess has a weird vibe and she seems like the writers want her to just constantly be educating you. Which is not the role anyone should have, much less someone who... has been through a lot and has a lot better shit to do with her time.
Also, the term "genotypicals" makes me want to genuinely throw up.
The weird vibes with jess' treatment shine through in other ways i believe, but I don't remember this game fully... Only these parts because they really made me upset! Game is not even that bad otherwise. a little copagandic. but the narrative and the way hybrids were handled did not do it for me at all and it left a very bad taste in my mouth.
It's just deeply uncomfortable to say something that you, as a player, probably can see will not be taken well, have to say it, and then see it not taken well! And that's where your knowledge of hybrids comes from. And i just feel like there couldve been a better way that feels way less exploitative of this woman's trauma, and way less personally offensive to me as a disabled person who gets a lot of this in my real life already and whatnot... And All this for a racism metaphor. Every confrontation with Jess has a weird vibe and she seems like the writers want her to just constantly be educating you. Which is not the role anyone should have, much less someone who... has been through a lot and has a lot better shit to do with her time.
Also, the term "genotypicals" makes me want to genuinely throw up.
The weird vibes with jess' treatment shine through in other ways i believe, but I don't remember this game fully... Only these parts because they really made me upset! Game is not even that bad otherwise. a little copagandic. but the narrative and the way hybrids were handled did not do it for me at all and it left a very bad taste in my mouth.