Death and Taxes

Kendince tatlı bir oyun. Çoklu sonu var, her biri için uğraşabilirsiniz. İndirim zamanı, dehşet düşüyor. Felsefi ve düşünmeye iten bir sunumu var. Pek çok yönden başarılı. Ama masada oturup, kağıt okuyup yaşat/öldür diye karar vermek bir yerden sonra çekici gelmiyor. Oyunu bitirdim. Bütün sonları alma niyetindeydim. Ama araya mesafe, zaman girince iyice bu fikir yüzünden uzaklaştım.

I like the core gameplay of the game - I don't even have any qualms about how much my decisions matter or how little new mechanics there are, because honestly, I just like checking and marking stuff -, but the writing is just not it. It feels too tongue-in-cheek and to un-subtle. The dialogue of almost every day feels like either "Are you feeling bad for your decisions yet???" or another very ironic joke about corporate culture. Or both. With the former, I feel like the setting itself make the message much weaker. I mean, we play as a literal embodiment of death, and I don't feel like I can just... what, not kill people? Besides, the scope is so big that I don't even get to empathise with them or feel bad about my decisions. With the latter, most of the corporate stuff is said, but not shown. There's literally zero consequences if you disobey Fate, not getting paid just means that you won't have money for cosmetic items, there's no complicated bureaucracy, no nonsensical rules, no layoffs - aside from having no vacations, this is kind of a fine job. Also, I really didn't get the addition of the second character - throughout all of the game I had NO idea what they were on about, and it felt like their speech was made so mysterious just to make the game seem more deep than it is. Aaand the game is very tedious if you try to get different endings - you can't skip dialogue at the end of each day, and it gets stale very fast. As for some positives - I liked the artstyle a lot, and there were some fun characters (Mortimer expecially) and storylines. And, again, I liked the main gameplay loop, even though it's pretty repetitive.