I really liked how this game started out. The renders were great, and the story was very interesting. The characters developed nicely, and it had good pacing... When this game was in chapter 1 I truly enjoyed the start of this game, and I was looking forward to how the plot moved forward. I was rather intrigued.
I checked this out when it was chapter 1, but then decided I'm going to skip chapter 2 when that comes out and play chapters 1, 2, and 3 over again when chapter 3 comes out so that I can get more of this game in a sitting.
Sadly the next two chapters were a great disappointment for me.
I can easily forgive the missing image errors, and a bug here and there, and getting to bone the aunt even if you pick all of the reluctant choices. That sort of thing can be fixed in a day. I know so from experience. It's not a huge issue and the bugs could be fixed easily enough to make things more smooth.
The thing that ground my gears was these new sci-fi elements added. I'm not saying I dislike the sci-fi genre. I watch Star Trek, enjoy Star Wars too, I enjoyed the Matrix, Jurrasic Park, and Avatar... Sci-fi is a genre I enjoy. I am the last person to knock sci-fi. I love sci-fi.
When you go from a serious work of art about a real-life issue such as human trafficking and revenge... Then you mix in sci-fi elements out of the blue it does not mix well, or at least it has not mixed well thus far. I am not sure if it is possible to mix these two things well.
Imagine I am presented with a nice tasty steak. Then the chef says, "Here I'm going to put some whip cream and chocolate sprinkles on top of it." What are you doing dude no!? What the fuck those things do not go well together! If I was having an ice cream I would have loved that idea, but is a steak and not an ice cream...
Anyhow, good luck to the creator.
I would not object if the creator decided to redo chapter 3 and remove all sci-fi elements replacing it with more "gritty realism" (or retcon it so that all the sci-fi bullshit was just a dream...) However, it is there game to make as they please.