Heh. I’ve gone into it a few too many times at Qt3 so I feel sheepish in even bringing it up again.
Here’s a good summary in this post:
And then my own post when I tried the game.
In contrast to the posters above, I gave up on the game and returned my rental. What I just couldn’t stand anymore was the absolutely hilarious comments from the bad guys. It was just amusing when they were saying stuff like “I’m going to get you, Fischer”. But when they started getting really specific in later sections “You like the Museum, Fischer? Well, I’m going to make you an exhibit”, I just don’t know whether to laugh or roll my eyes or what. It’s just silly. It feels so cheesy and ruins any immersion for me.
Here we go, this article expresses it really well:
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