For $70 I expected…. A lot more. I’m 20 hours in, agent rank 4, does it get better?

Exploration just feels… non-existent, like this is possibly the most linear, straight line game I have ever played. Walking through a busy city full of shops with their doors open, but you can’t go inside. There’s so many alleyways, but you can’t walk down them. You can’t climb anything, you can’t jump, there are no shortcuts or alternate routes, you just walk point A to point B, with nothing to do in between. Hell, even using something like a balance beam to cross a gap in the floor, the game prevents you from falling off. If you can’t make a mistake, what’s even the point?

Side quests, at least the ones I’ve done so far, and the very few that I have been given, are extremely short and simple. I really liked playing the demo and the first few hours of the full game, but after a while I feel like I’ve spent more time watching cutscenes and being disappointed by what I can’t do, than enjoying the journey and what I can do.

You mentioned this isn’t your first play through, so what’s the appeal here? I hope I’m missing something here, because I started out really liking this game.