Solid 8. A great little gem of an RPG/adventure game. It starts out pretty hard as youre starting as a nobody refugee fighting to survive with literally nothing to your name, but as the game progresses and you gain your footing it becomes a delightful and oddly touching cyberpunk slice of life game. Its almost entirely dictated by dice rolls but it provides you with ways to game the dice as you progress, so there is a constant sense of control that I really like. It can be a little verbose but the game is very well written, has great worldbuilding, and does a fantastic job depicting normal people just trying to get by on a bleak cyberpunk spacestation. I had some issues with objectives in the net not spawning on certain days when I was doing Fengs quests and there was a bug where controls locked up that went away upon restarting. I also thought the game kind of did away with choice and consequence as it went on, which was a little disappointing. The characters are great and I found the melancholy internal thoughts of the Sleeper and their struggles with their identity compared to people relatable in a few ways. Due to the simplicity of the game mechanics, the writing, characters, and soundtrack do a lot of heavy lifting. The free DLC is also very well done.

Solid 5. Wasnt a fan. I dont even know why I felt compelled to play this because I dont usually like puzzle games. I didnt like how you couldnt view information about clues in the notebook so you had to keep going back to view them. Since I have short term memory issues this was kind of a deal breaker. I also felt like some of the clues were very well hidden, though many others seem to have thought the game was too simple so I may just have been dumb. Art direction and vibes are immaculate though.

Solid 4. Less interesting than the first game with no improvements and a focus on action in spite of the shitty controls. Setting is kind of cool.

Solid 2. Its bad. Its really, really bad. Everything from the gunplay, to the movement, to the controls, to the level design (ESPECIALLY the level design) is awful. You never feel like youre in total control of what Drake is doing and he always does some weird Matrix shit when you dont want him to. The one thing this game has going for it is how funny the cutscenes are. Theyre ridiculous and over the top with super campy dialogue and hilariously bad voice acting. Apparently the Xbox version is even worse because the controls are borderline unusable.

Solid 5. This is just Dark Messiah but without all of the things that make Dark Messiah interesting. The core combat is fine, but lacks any real depth. If the kick werent in the game it would likely be subpar. The game has level design thats bland at best and really annoying at worst. This is especially apparent at the end of chapter 1 with those obnoxious instakill traps that you can barely see and in chapter 2 with the stupid bridge/key stuff that made me quit. The progression is super barebones as you can only unlock a select few abilities with only a couple of them being particularly interesting. I also feel like there was no reason to make this a soulslike. Considering how many traps there can be it just makes the game more frustrating. The boss fight at the end of chapter 1 was pretty bad.