Oh, here’s another thing I thought I’d mention. When asked about your religious beliefs, the atheist choice was worded something like this:
“I’m an atheist; I don’t believe in anything I can’t kill.”
I don’t know if this was supposed to be a jab at atheists, but either way I think it could have been phrased better. After all, I believe in rocks, but I can’t kill them xD
There’s something my head about “I don’t believe in anything I can’t see” or something like that, pointing to the absence of aliens, angels, god, etc.
But the line was tweaked for a headcrusher, who would be concerned about things that he can kill. The joke may have been too attenuated.
This honestly has to be THE worst liked “Choice” game I’ve gotten. Why seemingly alot of people liked this, I don’t know. But when i saw this game, I thought it’d be golden; finally, a Choice game that had something to do with the mafia, promising to be a dark, noir crime thriller! It couldn’t have sounded any cooler…but alas…it couldn’t have been any more disappointing. I BOUGHT this game with the promise of a gripping thriller set in a noir setting, having me engulfed in its perplexed story. Instead, I got a story that goes so over-the-top, it’s not even funny. I guess I’m mainly disappointed at the fact that I expected it to be ground-based realistic. But the premise summery left no hint whatsoever that the game’s story elements would go beyond the rails. So I, personally, highly despise this game.
@silversuitcase96 I dont think its as bad as choice of rock star, but thats for a different thread lol
Felt pretty incoherent, storywise. Just jumped from scene to scene without any of them having any particular solidity or depth. I’m not a fan.
I also bought the game after playing the demo and expecting a much darker story than actually existed. I was actually really enjoying it up to the part where you get a limb hacked off and everything gets remarkably silly after that point. I don’t think I would have been as disappointed as I was if the tone was more consistent from the beginning, but as it is it just turned into an immersion-killing case of mood whiplash. The mature language and grim setting really made it seem like it was going in a more serious direction, and I wouldn’t have bought the game had I known that wasn’t the case.
@Eriedanna Now that you mention this-I had, indeed, enjoyed the game far more before I ‘became a Dragon’ xD .
I expected it to be the Noir version of Yojimbo at first that would have been great 
First post and it’s a review. I bought NOLA is burning and for the first few chapters I felt myself becoming quite immersed in what was a gritty, dark world of gangsters and violence and (even with the early voodoo sub plot) it felt like a relatively mature, honest to type noir storyline. I looked forward to manipulating bent police and forging alliances with other suitably underworld types to gain a hold over New Orleans and make the city my own. The enforced romance I found palatable as every good noir needs a femme fatale at the heart of it and the introduction of this character would be integral to the storyline. Maybe I could cultivate a relationship with this person through various encounters where I knew I would be dancing close to the fire. The villains were portrayed as sinister, powerful, manipulative and truly sadistic - all good traits for that type of character.
The story was progressing well, I was beginning to feel like I was getting to know my MC, who was a no holes barred, knife wielding, face ripping head case who didn’t take crap from anyone. Then I lost a couple of limbs and things went a bit awry. All of a sudden I jumped from my dark, seedy urban underworld into a semi anime graphic novel where I became some kind of robocop / terminator inspired chimera. The only thing more deadly than my nano enhanced limbs that fired bullet and bone was my arrogance. My arch nemesis who I had imagined as some kind of goodfellas meets scar face nightmare turned out to be a kind of snoop dogg caricature who enjoyed bathing in money while dressed as a toddler. Rather than finding the humour in this I found it offensive that my skull cracking MC could have been so horribly maimed by someone so seemingly idiotic, and all because I made him hang out with a kid with a disability.
All in all I just felt like this was a story written by 2 separate authors. The first was a mature and gritty Tarantino type that implied a similar level of dark humour as the aforementioned. He then gave up and moved to Mexico and a science fiction spoof writer took over and introduced nano spiders in the place of a serrated edge.
This is all personal opinion and I didn’t find the game necessarily bad, more just that it seemed to have an identity crisis halfway through and went of on a unique, if not to my taste route. I understand the game doesn’t intend to take itself too seriously but the way in which the plot went made it (for me at least) less like humour and more like a confused marriage of two totally different genres. Again this is all opinion and no offence is meant to the author who obviously put time and effort into it, just my own thoughts based around my own tastes
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the far out aspects of the later game, but the game does come across as rather schizophrenic because it goes from so noir that I think the game is set in the past to fantasy noir.
I’d have really recommended at least some freaking hints in the first of the game. Robot driven taxi cabs, clone shrimp poorboys, something for the twenty minutes into the future aspect, cyberpunk and noir go quite well together.
As for the supernatural elements, well I have two major complaints. Being called a dragon by the Dragon for the hellfire empowerment. Chinese dragons are divine creatures associated with water (and some wind considering their weather control), not infernal creatures of fire. I know she's really californian but please she ought to know that much.
But mostly, no voodoo? In a game with fantastical elements in New Orleans? When the main character gets a fire spewing cyberlimb? With one of the loa being Ogun, loa patron of fire, iron (and hence technology), hunting, war, and politics usually depicted wielding a saber or machete?
The storyline being what it is I can't imagine the PC qualifying more for Ogun's patronage if he tried, and would make a thousand times more sense than getting hellfire from a rosary.@stsword if you don’t get The Dragon’s help, but you do get help from Auntie Ezma, you can become a “Cheval” instead of a “Dragon.”
Huh, I didn’t get that path, I got the cyberdragon thing, and the demonic hitman back from the dead storyline, I missed that one.
i got the game right after playing demo and ,wow i was not expecting it to go where it did,i might have been ok with where it went if i had a way of knowing super nano tech existed,but COME ON as far as i know(and correct me if im wrong)there is no way of knowing any of this wierd sci-fi crap is around before paying for the whole game,and i admit the voodoo was introduced in the demo but(again correct me if im wrong) it doesn’t do anything before the demo ends and your asked to pay.
all in all i kinda just felt like i had been lied to
Yeah, like I said, I would have really suggested that the fantastical elements get introduced earlier to it just doesn’t come out of left field.
As it is, it’s like if we were playing a game of court intrigue in what seems like renaissance Italy only for maruading mutant cyborgs to ride in from the atomic wasteland outside the city.
Although I’d totally play that game, but I’d rather it not be a complete and total surprise.
Anyway, I’ve been robocop, a bat out of hell, and a cyberdragon, how do you arrange to get ridden by a loa?
Okay, that’s my problem, I thought the pitt situation was just window dressing, thanks.
Hey, I tried to download this on the Google Store for Chrome but it doesn’t seem to download? A gray icon will show up for a couple seconds in the App Launcher window but the progress bar never goes anywhere and the icon goes away after a few seconds. Has anyone else had this problem or knows how to fix it?