

Polite, smartass and slow-witted options typically mask the same response, only prefixed with a different description of a facial expression. And for all the quality of Hong Kong’s dialogue, it’s still prone to offer an illusion of player choice over meaningful roleplay. I left her behind with vindictive pleasure. The UI is cleaner, certainly, but a certain amount of patience is required to see past input lag and, on one occasion, complete failure of input recognition that caused my runner to stroll about in sleeping gas instead of taking the lift. It’s a shame that $1.2m wasn’t enough to resolve the longstanding interface woes.

It’s luxurious, hands-off spectacle that exists to support the writing, and occasionally outshines it. Static though the settings are, they’re lavish to an obscene degree.
