I was really hooked throughout despite the rocky writing and storytelling. There were long stretches of the game that were absolutely amazing (convenience store, night club, car junkyard to name a few). Obviously your experience and satisfaction of the game largely depends on the type of story you go through, I was able to save almost every character, and despite having one of the "best" ends morally, it was really lackluster in the end (with honestly the "worse" endings having more exciting or powerful conclusions).

They really messed up by having almost all D-list Europeans voice stereotypically American characters, the inconsistent accents are wack and lead to some incredibly cringe delivery and wrong tones. Scott Shelby was a great performance though.

Ultimately, I enjoyed my time with this game even though I'm a little underwhelmed by the twist and the ending I got. This has me intrigued to go through some of the other quantic dreams games

What would you do if you were standing over your kid's grave, mourning him and reminiscing about the memories you have of him, and your new wife next to you says "I want you to cum in me and impregnate me". What would you say.

Actual review: Extremely sloppy story, for example why does Ethan have blackouts? Oh it's a cut story element! Leave the cutscenes in, make your bad story even more confusing because who gives a fuck! Characters are paper thin and talk to themselves CONSTANTLY (fuck you Cage for damning us with this trope). Madison is a journalist, apparently, but it's only mentioned once and then she's Ethan's sidepiece for the entire rest of the game.
The color palette ranges from a dark grey to grey-brown. Better enjoy that opening cutscene because they're the only vibrant colors you'll ever see in this dogshit game. Voice acting is mediocre, nobody can seem to pronounce origami right. Dialogue is terrible. Overall garbage game and I truly wonder how Cage was allowed to have a career after pushing out said piece of garbage and I immediately ignore the opinions of those who say this is good.

I don't want to say that I don't like this game really. It does have moments of quality. I love how they would use the controls in unique ways like having you do a lot of uncomfortable button combinations while you're trying to get through some electrical wires or whatever. But other than some unique ideas and a good presentation for the time I didn't really find myself enjoying it that much and I know that what you do effects the story but I just left the experience going "What on Earth was that???" because so much of it was just nonsensical to me. I can see why people like it but it's not for me.