Moral Dilemma: The Interview

I have never hated chairs before this game. I will be switching to stools. I hate you Dr Chair. Loved the rest of the game though. All the gem collecting was very fun. Highly recommend unless you want to keep your keyboard in one piece.

This is one of those times I wish there was a "Mixed" option for the review. By all means, it's absolutely worth the "Free" price tag. But I also wish it had just said "No, there's a good amount of content here. I'm worth $5." I'd say it is long enough to deserve it. Don't provide half the game for free, then the other half behind a paywall. It's jarring for the player and takes them out of the immersion. As for the content, it's so obviously inspired by The Stanley Parable, with segments taken from a few other games like Exit 8 and sort-of the time-break scene from Outer Wilds, but maybe that's just visual inspiration for the same concept. The only problem is that it doesn't do anything innovative with the ideas. Several of the greatest bits from The Stanley Parable are turned upside down and played as an anti-joke, "The circle that doesn't let you jump", "The room that the narrator *really doesn't* comment about you being in despite there not being anything in it", but they're all non-jokes that require you to be familiar with the source material to get any amount of mirth out of it. The thing that made TSP so great was that you could go nearly anywhere, and there was always a storyline to follow. Moral Dilemma has one plot for you to follow, and it is very linear. The DLC is nearly beat-for-beat the DLC ending from TSP:UD for a bit, then several "puzzles" not introduced or iterated upon in any other portion of the game, and then you look at things and it's over? In the words of the game that this wishes it was, "This isn't a coherent game at all. It's a lot of gags." It's got a lot of things to do, and as someone who really did enjoy TSP and will wait for a bit to pay off, it got a few laughs out of me, but I wish it would just decide that it's worth the $5 up front, shuffle the links to other games into a submenu instead of being buttons inside the game, and do something more than play an echo to one of the best walking simulators ever made. There's good stuff here, it's just creatively broke.

Maybe The Stanley Parable bar is too high

It's very interesting and has some neat quirks or mechanics that I haven't seen in other games. There were definitely times where I expected something specific and was quite surprised by the outcome. And I didn't press the button.

Incredible gameplay, hilarious settings, and so much more! This game is one of those free-to-play hidden gems that I love, and I always want more like this!

Интересная идея, но реализация оказалась не такой, как я рассчитывал. В целом хорошо, но супер скучно.