No. Never. It's easily the worst game I've played, and I grew up playing them LCD games you used to get from Argos.
The combat is woeful, the "live a life" aspects are pointless, less than half of the dialogue has voice acting (it's jarring to go from voiced dialogue to strictly subtitles), if you run out of petrol in your car it's a pain in the arse running back, the game is genuinely ugly to look at, it tries too hard to be bizarre (and, as many have said, like Twin Peaks and Silent Hill with an RE4 slant), the story doesn't make any sense, and the entire thing feels like a chore.
All this talk of it being like Shenmue is utter nonsense. Despite it being a populated game with NPC schedules, the entire town feels lifeless. The one thing that's decent is the weirdo in the wheelchair and his creepy rhyming carer.
Seriously, fuck this game, and fuck everyone on here who convinced me to play it.
Having said that, I'm going back to it eventually, simply because I have a compulsive need to 100% obtainable achievements.
I'll never forgive the Dojo for tricking me into playing it.
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