President in the Shadows v0.1

The whole thing feels like a half finished basement renovation, you know? Like someone got the drywall up but then just walked away before the mudding. The new president, this big shot from the description, he's just some guy in a suit who shows up in your office. And you, you're supposed to be the shadowy CEO pulling strings. But the first thing you do is basically tell him to bend over a desk. No buildup, no real corruption arc, just a button that says "humiliate" and then a 3DCG model of some generic politician looking uncomfortable while a text box tells you he's crying. The voice acting, when it's there, is this flat, tinny recording that sounds like it was done in a closet. It completely kills any heat. The D.va cameo later on is so random I laughed out loud, she's just there in a side room for a handjob scene that has nothing to do with the main plot about controlling the government. Spent way too long trying to get the Lady Dimitrescu scene to trigger. The menu is a mess of favor meters and drug inventory that never really gets explained. You're supposed to be protecting your family, but the only family member who shows up is a sister who you can, well, you know. The game calls it a "continuous game of favors" but it's more like a slideshow of fetish checkboxes. There's a moment with a tentacle monster in the Oval Office that's so janky, the model clips through the Resolute Desk for a solid minute. The ahegao faces are just a texture swap that looks more like an allergic reaction. And for a game tagged with half the franchises from the last decade, seeing Tifa and Lara Croft just standing in a cyberpunk alleyway waiting to be prostituted out feels less like a fantasy and more like a weird asset flip garage sale. The real porn clips spliced in are jarring against the 3DCG, like putting a photograph next to a crayon drawing. The exhibitionism tag is technically met because you can do things in public, but the crowd is just a static jpeg that never reacts. It's a power fantasy that forgot to include the fantasy part, just the mechanics of clicking through degradation.

• animated
• resident evil
• ada wong
• cyberpunk
• humiliation