Ive yet to find someone give a decent rationale for not liking the game. Its either people who are trolling or people who havent even played the game from my experience.
reasons why I think it's terrible -
poor writing/narrative - how do you make a story about the afterlife, execution events, and things in between as boring and "academic" as possible? by that I mean, you keep getting drawn out lectures by talking heads throughout the game. also, the world is incredibly small - Sam is connected to the extinction event, and he's also connected to Cliff, who's also connected to Deadman, etc.
the characters are two-dimensional - it feels like they're written just to move along the plot, and there's no depth to them outside of the suffering they've experienced.
the stealth and combat feel barebones - this isn't necessarily the worst part, since the game is less about fighting and killing, but these elements really suck when you're forced to fight
the forced Time Fall sections of each story mission - these were not fun at all, IMO, especially when they turned into boss fights
traversing the world was the "best" part, but it was still annoying and boring, and the fact that using vehicles was sometimes a hindrance was lame. I just used the power skeleton (fast moving one), and only carried what was necessary, since side-missions didn't really reward you with anything meaningful story wise.
overall, I'd give the game a 6/10, since I didn't have any technical issues, when I played, and the game played the way it was supposed to, even if it was extremely disappointing.
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