Game was interesting on paper, but the setting is all over the place for me. It's full of contradictions.
Somehow we're simultaneously at the end of the world, yet life keeps going on as if nothing mattered. Currency doesn't matter anymore, but delivery boys and other characters still work for money. Game takes place near the beginning of the incident, but some characters talk as if it's already been going on for a long time...
I think what breaks the immersion for me the most is the dialogue and the fact that some characters can refuse to take certain tests and you just accept it.
I can understand people getting thoughtful about life, their experiences, reminiscing about memories and reflecting, but it brings me out to have so many philosophers talking about the meaning of life, dreams, or humanity, whatever, like a group of college aged stoners with too much time to kill.
There's one lady who's one of those vampire freaks or whatever, sharpening her teeth Chainsaw Man style, black scelera in her eyes, ear loops or whatever theyre called, and iirc if you refuse her at the door, she goes something like "It's because of the way i look, is it? You're no better than them"
Bitch, i feel bad for you, it's not your fault that the world's ending, but i feel sensible people would understand why they'd be turned down in that situation in her shoes. The signs of being a Visitor are all physical anomalies, and sometimes, a Visitor won't even know they are one. Can you really blame the homeowner for not wanting to risk it with you? It's a matter of life or death!
There's another situation with the teenage girl and the child, one of the tests involved to figure a Visitor out is to check if they have no body hair, so that means checking out armpits (and if im not mistaken, this test was meant to be checking for pubes originally).
Now, i get why this would be uncomfortable as a player, but for the game to tell me "You cant perform this test on her because it's just wrong", that's even more immersion breaking. Again, this is a matter of life and death, in a situation like this, either have the protagonist get someone else to test them, or have the girls test themselves. Feels extremely unrealistic to risk everyone's life because "Its just wrong".
