Bionic Heart 2

Bad

Tags: Adventure - VN - Visual Novel Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Endless superficial banter that sounds juvenile. Logical progression of events is very flawed. Poor dialogue that breaks 4th wall as characters explain out loud their circumstances, sounds artificial. Bionic heart 2 follows up on the original's story. It retraces the events of the main game and then has you play multiple chapters from multiple protagonists viewpoints. Since you account for multiple people I found the immersion and investment in each was diminished. Some of the characters you play are not very interesting or likeable. The storyline involves a lot of policework, intrigue, megacorporation, and being fugitives. The way that they just go back to places where they would be expected to be found. The fact that they stole the ID of real people instead of making a completely fake one. The fact that survaillance in a future dystopia would even allow any of this nonsense to happen also felt really weak logically. The overarching plot is also a bit strange, where basically the illuminati picked the best and brightest to be preserved and moved to mars so that people would clamor for their return, but apparently people just moved on with their lives. Did not really make sense either. The characters are all rather juvenile, getting jealous and upset at the slightest things, and going around in banter circles over and over, repeating themselves. Just very thin and shallow. The social boss battles were by far the most tedious. The game does not autosave before they appear like it claims it does. They are a sequence of multiple choices where the correct sequence is completely arbitrary and plays out very differently just based on the order you pick them from. There is also little to no logic to that either. Conclusion: Just very botched and forced world design and dialogue with very rough mechanics, too much useless fluff text and failed intrigues. Hard pass.