Anything with vampires catches my attention. The cyberpunk atmosphere was an interesting blend I haven’t seen much before in IFs, so I gave this a try.
I don’t mind a pre-set MC with a defined personality at all. It’s not for everyone, but I find them more enjoyable. Especially in settings that are notably different from the real world, as I’m more immersed into what the world is like from the perspective of someone who that is their every day reality.
Edit: I do think I’d genuinely enjoy more choices with how to treat the Splicer and given more freedom to interact with them on our terms, to evolve that relationship further to whatever the player wants it to be.
One thing I would say, I would’ve liked clearer prompting on the gender choice of the MC. It was not intuitive that I’d be picking my gender versus my clone’s gender, so I had to restart the game when I made my MC a male. I would say that this is a pattern that I encountered with the rest of the choices in the game. It wasn’t intuitive what choice I was making so I had to kind of guess what my options meant, especially when you fight the Widowmakers.
A small typo here where I’m a female MC and my clone is male but it refers to him as ‘her’ in this paragraph:
But once the honeymoon phase was over, I thought of him as an extension of myself. Because he is. Be grateful for that because I could’ve made him a slave. He would’ve done the same too. No one knows him since I can’t let her
out indefinitely. Not yet. I’m getting there, year by year.
Another typo here with the splicer’s pronouns. Male splicer, but referred to as “they”:
My splicer’s upper body materializes beside me, their
voice low and calm. “The blood wore off,” he replies, his shadowy form flickering faintly. “There’s eight of them, by the way.”
Behind me, my splicer stands silently, their
shadowy form flickering in the dim light. They
glance at the elevator. “A lot of bloodstains, no body or smears,” they
comment, their
voice calm, analytical. Then, without waiting for a reply, they
disappear into shadow.
I’m honestly surprised the MC resorted to mutating the Widowmakers over picking up the scraps over the gang members who are probably easier targets. I did appreciate that the MC was not heavily invested into cybernetic enhancements, but that’s a personal preference for cyberpunk genre/role play, I like having minimal cybernetics.