makes me wanna rip my hair out in the best way possible- it's super challenging and detailed. the art style, gameplay, humor, and lore is 10/10!

The game is interesting and my opinion of this game is that it has too many mechanics that run contrary to what it wants from you. I did not play frantic mode because I have minor carpal tunnel and so didn't want to have to deal with the damage having to be frantic puts on my wrists. What's funny is that, talking with my friend, frantic mode demonstrates an issues with the way the mechanics are made and what the game wants from you.

As my friend described, frantic mode is constantly timed and so you want to focus on jobs you know how to do but you can't make it past the later rent amounts only doing early type jobs which means you will inevitably fail as you read the book and try to learn to do the later jobs, forcing you to restart. I could tell just from his description that I would despise it because I'm having a similar problem that has nothing to do with failing to meet rent and all to do with unfair mechanics.

Every time you die, you are forced back to the beginning and the early game is easy and incredibly boring. What's worse is that how repetitive it gets, hurts all the more. I want to see the different storylines but every time I get close to seeing things develop, I get forced to choose a reactor fix. I have had the damned thing at the top of a tall craft, basically ready to explode every time. I had read the manual and knew exactly what I needed to do but was unable to do it in time. There seems to be nothing you can do sometimes, you are just destined to lose. And the loss means that run ends. Either you die or you survive and lose so much money, you are not completing that rental requirement, which is also a loss. Then, back to the beginning.

And it's the repetition that kills the game. The early game isn't interesting and there seems to be nothing I can do to prepare for it. I'm probably just getting unlucky but it feels completely unfair. That unfairness then compounds as I have to do the same things and no matter if I'm having a good run or bad run, it's these random moments that hurt the game for me. I have run into dialogue options where I apparently chose the wrong option and died. None of these deaths feel fun. Nothing about playing the beginning another time feels fun. And it's the lack of fun that kills the game for me.

The first third of this game is a little infuriating, because it's weird and makes you feel clueless. And the last third is infuriating, because the endgame secrets are a little hard to figure out and you have to go through some repetitive stuff just to get a shot at the endings. But the middle third, where you go from barely knowing what's going on to flipping four jobs in a day, is sort of brilliant.