There is nothing unreasonable in your comments though of course I don't agree.
I like your first impressions actually count. I hate the games where you act like a dick from start and women still throw themselves at you and just like in real life the first impression makes a huge difference.
Science fiction and science fantasy are both genres I love. Yes its great to be a Miles Vorgastan or a Luke Skywalker, but the biggest sci fi of all time for me was Blade Runner where "hero" was out classed and had ass handed to him in end, "Tears in the Rain" is still considered one of best dialogues in cinema.
We still don't know who is how strong. None of characters have yet to be seriously tested besides Chris but we do know MC is from military family and switched from combat to engineering after it became apparent no aliens to fight. Somehow both he and sister have both ended up in key career paths (comms and engineering) in a place that seems to be a lot more important than plebs realise.
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I think it is rare to even get on Sarah's radar and if you look at PDF she is very slow to actually like you. I don't think Sarah is stupid just she is just very disassociated with real world.
One thing I love in this game is exactly who is good and bad? We have a corrupt elite serving government which we all attack dogs for. We have a secret research facility that is at least researching the drugs we may or may not use. We have a resistance/terrorist group that has no compunctions in taking out masses of civilians to get a single target. We have MC and his sister who from military family that seem to have followed career paths to get most influence and although MC is seems good at what he does he has zero personal interest in it. We have Chris that thumbs nose at authority and procedure at will hiding behind her husbands power but quick to use the very same procedures and system to control others. There is no doubt using drugs to fuck Sarah would be evil but what about using drugs to get control of a computer genius that close to key players to try bring down an oppressive military regime (that created the drugs in first place)? {I not saying this likely, I just love how Notte captures just how subjective Good and Bad is}.
Ok end of my long winded dribble.