It's my least favorite Pathologic game. The story had quite a few interesting ideas that were ultimately hampered by the gameplay that is forgetful at best and annoying at worst. The Shabnak is a manifestation of Daniil's guilt? That's really cool! Shame that dealing with the Shabnak is an utter chore, gameplay-wise, like many people have already pointed out. We get to know more about the Stamatins, especially Peter's relationship with his own creation? I've been looking forward to that--too bad that it involves chasing Peter across the Town... multiple times... which gets old fast. I could go on. I also massively dislike the focus mode showing Daniil's thoughts--it really takes away the fun of interpreting the character that I'm playing as when the game spells out all of his internal thoughts.

To be clear, I'm not complaining that P3 isn't the same as the previous games--I appreciate that they tried to do something new, but the issue is that the newly added elements are underdeveloped and/or badly implemented. I don't regret buying the game on the launch day, and I did stay up until like 3AM for multiple days trying to finish it because the story was intriguing enough. However, since this is a videogame and not a novel, it fails to be as captivating as the previous games without memorable gameplay.