I can see what this is trying to accomplish, but five hours in I dread the idea of playing it to completion.
The fights are the same, all fights are the same, every fight is the same. It's possible the three criminal factions will differentiate themselves in the late game but I don't feel like going through hours of repetition to get there.
It's not just on a mechanical level where this lack of distinction is a problem. For a game that has very clear genre influences there's a severe lack of juice running throughout. All the characters are the same once you get past their immediate backstory, the enemies are the same. With the latter we don't know why they do what they do, our motivations do not exist beyond "shoot criminal".
One of those games where the devs were so clearly focused on getting all the features they desired into the experience they didn't really nail any of them.
The fights are the same, all fights are the same, every fight is the same. It's possible the three criminal factions will differentiate themselves in the late game but I don't feel like going through hours of repetition to get there.
It's not just on a mechanical level where this lack of distinction is a problem. For a game that has very clear genre influences there's a severe lack of juice running throughout. All the characters are the same once you get past their immediate backstory, the enemies are the same. With the latter we don't know why they do what they do, our motivations do not exist beyond "shoot criminal".
One of those games where the devs were so clearly focused on getting all the features they desired into the experience they didn't really nail any of them.