there's a lot to be said about this game and im not sure where to even start
the story itself is... decent. while i'm not done with it yet (im boutta half-way through), i don't exactly feel any attachment to this game nor do i feel the need to finish it. it's just... there. i always found the idea of a kid and an unknown entity protecting them sweet, so this scratches a certain part of my brain that's been neglected, but outside of that i don't find either the story nor other characters compelling in the slightest. if anything, most of them are either annoying or simply boring to me. this whole game (SO FAR, im stuck at the [spoiler] CIA training program part [/spoiler] ) is literally just weird kid + girlhood simulator no matter how you look at it. jodie herself is basically treated like eleven from stranger things, so i guess that adds onto another point why i dislike the duffer brothers and the amount of ♥♥♥♥ they are stealing but thats a whole nother topic altogether.
on the topic of the spoilered thing, it brings me to the next part aka the WONKIEST CONTROLS I'VE EVER WITNESSED. i dunno, maybe it plays better on a controller, but mind you, IM ON A PC. the camera is really tough to move around and its hard to tell whether its fixed in place or not. the parts like combat and stuff are straight up unfair solely because the game doesnt register the movement of my mouse as it should. i move to the left as it instructs me? apparently thats wrong and it registers something entirely else, causing me to get constantly punished for its ♥♥♥♥♥♥ detection, which is another reason for me to not continue the game. maybe if i get a controller in the future, then yeah... but otherwise? nah. and it's certainly not a skill issue on my part because this sort of thing works PERFECTLY in every other game than this one
so yeah. imo. if you want to play it then grab it on a discount and only if you have a controller cuz otherwise it sucks. and remember to take the new remixed version of the story option or whatever that thing is called cuz you won't understand the story at all if you dont LMAO the og version is such a mess, it's impossible to keep track of
