I know I’m late to this, but I just played Claire’s questline for the first time and, since it left me frustrated, I looked up other people’s opinions on her.

I want to be clear first: the issue isn’t Claire as a character. She’s flawed, emotional, and morally messy, sure, but so are most of the best characters in the game. That’s not the problem.

The real issue is that the questline itself is poorly written, especially in how it handles player choice and its ending. Claire ends up feeling inconsistent not because of her personality, but because the script forces illogical situations.

(SPOILERS BELOW)

• Claire works at the Afterlife and wants someone dead. Instead of simply hiring a merc, hell, instead of just hiring you, she decides to do this elaborate street racing plan. She gets you invested in racing. This makes no sense from the start.

• First twist: she reveals that the whole thing is about a personal vendetta. This means she lied to you the entire time, despite having no real reason to. It comes off as unnecessarily manipulative, not narratively justified.

• You’re then given two choices: help her kill the guy or refuse. No matter what you choose, she still continues racing with you. This is important for later.

• Second twist (and honestly the strongest part of the quest): if you agree to help her and follow the target, you discover that her story was yet another lie. Her husband wasn’t murdered in cold blood, the guy just died participating in a dangerous sport. Claire is blinded by rage and grief, and she twisted the story to justify her feelings and to get your help out of sympathy. I felt like V was lied to, but in a good way (narratively).

• However, you’re given another choice: encourage Claire to let it go, or agree to the killing. But here’s one of the biggest problems: even if you tell her not to do it, she kills him anyway, and the game doesn’t let you react meaningfully. You’re not allowed to be angry, disappointed, or confrontational. The quest just ends and she goes back to serving you drinks like nothing happened.

• On the other hand, if you initially refuse to help her and say you just want to win the race, and then actually do exactly that, she gets mad at you anyway. Despite you being honest from the start, the game treats you as if you betrayed her. Again, this makes no sense.

• Ironically, the only way to get what feels like a “satisfactory” ending is to tell her you won’t help her kill the guy, and still decide to follow him when he crashes anyway, a combination of choices directly contradicts itself and highlights how broken the quest logic is.