The Council starts off strong, with an intriguing story and the exploration mechanics. It's very satisfying to find things and piecing the stories of each character together. The replayability of the game really depends on how good you are at this type of game because yes some things you won't get to see if you do them instead of missing them but it's just makes the game harder (because your character knows less) and you don't really discover anything new. Except at the end but I won't spoil it because I recommend playing it. What you upgrade also changes the gameplay in an interesting way because choices do matter. The only issue that this game has is that the plot twist is quite disappointing, it deviates a bit too much from the original tone of the game.