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Reviews for "City of Broken Dreamers"

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Great animation, interesting story, great character and background design, nicely fleshed out characters could have music to help atmosphere, but it's no biggie in a graphic novel, great idea putting control key menu, half a star for that. You did amazing.

I love this, not because of the gratuitous sexualiation and how open it is in the portrayed society like most people would, but because this was a genuinely well-written cyberpunk/noir/corpo-political little piece of a game interwoven with morals and motives that can be any mix of grey, so long as it's grey.

The choices presented are what they say on the tin one is presented with. You want to jump in feet first, legs spread and cocksure? Fly free, dangly bits flying all over the damn place, and let none of those weird clothed people say you're wrong. You like to be more cautious, and explore all the angles? You can be the fox, poking its head out of the den to see what shinies you can get your mitts on, or see trouble coming miles away -or not, due to plots within plots within plots, because a plot is a plot is a plot, and damn near everyone has one, and those who say otherwise are liars all- and think about your options. Or you make like Dora and say 'No' with both middle fingers fully erect and visible, and wave them around. Be aware of one thing, on your own head be the consequences of your actions.

Point is, you can DO that.

I can admit that my draw was the tits and ass at first unashamedly, what with this being firmly in the adult section of this site, but when I saw that it would be a choice-driven noir-like, I became much more interested because I love Noir. Because Noir is not just romanticized crime-intrigue. To me, it is a gritty, relatively REAL intrigue that runs parallel to our lives. With all the ambiguous intentions, coffee-guzzling, job-having, debt-ridden, do-you-know-this-person-if-so-do-you-really-know-them-and-what-do-you-know-about-them lives we have today.

It speaks to me because they are relatable. They're not -often- Superman/ Batman analogues or otherwise. They often don't have superpowers, or top of the line gear and if they do, they're usually on some fairly hard times. They are not The Chosen One or The Best at What They Do. They can't magically shit out money or cure every wrong the worlds over with their Super-Duper-Ultra-Secret-Laser Beam Eyes of Fuck You, I'm the One Who Writes This Shit So I'm Doing an Asspull™. They bleed, cry, hurt, fear, lust, fuck, and love. Same as we do.

To me, the sexualized pixels are merely a bonus to the story and the myriad ways the story can, could, and will go based not only on what the people decide in-game, but what you as a developer/s do as well. I am certain City of Broken Dreamers will be a hit not just because of the interest in Cyberpunk 2077, but with a certain crowd of people. People who aren't wearing the rose-tinted glasses that so many do today. Not the Linkin-Park is-totally-not-a-phase-MOM people. But the ones like me who enjoy a good brain-tingler of Solving the Motivations of Character/s X and their relation/s to Character/s Y and how that doesn't just impact the story, but the world and those in it.

Or you know, they just came -sometimes literally- for the pixel tits and ass. As they say, Sex Sells. As for me, you've earned those Five Stars PhillyGames, now take them and fucking run with them, run with them all!

wow a fantastic game great animation and story really looking forward to more!

I enjoyed every moment of this game! The script writer is a genus!