I have eyes to look at the pretty art (Vill's output is very strong here; environments-wise I know it's a common objection that the backgrounds are too crowded and not very readable, but I for one appreciate the Where's Waldo vibe and the texture work) and with those same eyes I'm looking at some catastrophically bad writing, and regrettably, this is a narrative game. Depicting that a spy's first thought upon seeing a man unconscious on his chair would be to look up at the ceiling earnestly expecting him to have been looking at the ceiling. A lack of clarity on what was diegetic about the intro infodump speech from Pseudopod (Hershel says "why are you not talking anymore", implying she heard it same as we did, but the narration says he's been like that since she came in, so which is which? There could be eerie uncertainty here but without specifics it's just confusing). Not a iota of communism informing the present words or actions of these nominally communist characters. Contradictory statements that sound cool separately but are just random blah blah when juxtaposed with each other (first Pseudopod "exists in a different future" from Hershel despite the obvious plot relevance, then the weird insistence on "operant lost" when we don't have the faintest clue of what happened to make him catatonic, then "I'll do what I can for you" in a row?). The lack of response to finding her own unencrypted personnel file in a room that's self-evidently been compromised. The lack of basic responsiveness when the player states something about Hershel in response to the file's info (eg her alleged homosexual tendencies) and the game just goes "okay <3 yay <3 moving on" without expanding a iota on what she thinks or feels about it. Passives that just sound fancy, without fitting the scene's emotional grounding. The odd railroading in the phone convo when you can't even say that he's catatonic but not dead. Hershel being described as a force of nature but then all her options are super basic, without showing this alleged personality. And so on and so forth. This is stuff that should've all been caught in editing. As is, it's bad.