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It's a weird sensation. The visuals, and the "UNIX system" design is pretty well done, quite high level, but the intermissions between days, menus (or lack of them) and the "story" are quite bad. Feels like one person did the visuals, and somebody else use it to do a "meh" game.

There's a lot I like about it... the first 90% of the story, art, and sound design is fantastic, and the pacing of gameplay + chat is good. I also appreciate how fast the hacking is when you play thru a second time, using a guide or your previous notes. But I disliked the ending. [spoiler] It felt extremely silly and hokey... why did this otherwise down-to-Earth story need a bizarre, unoriginal sci-fi element instead of just being about hacking / identity theft / murder? I felt like I was supposed to get both endings because of the achievements, which unfortunately involved playing the whole game again, and then the good ending felt even dumber than the bad one. [/spoiler] (Edited to add spoiler tags. Sorry!) Oh - and I didn't get to see the resolution of the main thread about [spoiler]Michael[/spoiler] on my first playthrough because the chat controls froze. I thought it was an intentional effect, but on my second palythrough I realized it was just a reeeeally unfortunate bug.

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Good idead, but it so unpolished, that I cannot recommend it.

If you have nothing to do in the evening then this game is for you. It has a good plot. And contains light puzzles that do not bother.

It's terrible. If not for the slow, uncompromising speed of text display I would have found out it's junk in 20 minutes. There are exactly 4 simple, tedious puzzles you're asked to do altogether about 20 times between the sluggish narratives. It walks you into a "bad ending" with no indicator that there is a choice anywhere. Given the unskippable start-of-day cutscenes and no replayability of the puzzles, (even if they weren't boring they're exactly the same) you're discouraged from trying again because you could spend another hour seeing absolutely nothing new.