This game has some wildly clashing good and bad extremes.

If you like Phillip K Dick and have read his books, you will appreciate this game. It ties the movie and the book very nicely together. It also does the author a lot of justice imo as the plot seems to veer into the sorts of directions he goes with.

This game is quite open and allows for the player to alter the direction the story will end, and has some very different and interesting endings. If you like PnC adventure games this is also nice. It has a great soundtrack that I've long been a fan of. It has great background settings that feel right (and some good art design in general.) It suffers in some ways and has a clunky and chunky interface, pixel hunting. Disorienting questing, various filler mechanics and shoddy design in various places. All the ways PnC games tend to suck! Most would say it hasn't aged well. IT does however work out of the box on win9.

Personally I loved this game. I really would think it's worthy of some kind of remake or has a spiritual successor because some nice things were done with it. The combat should be reworked and if the main quest was to unfold in some kind of a day to day basis as you make progress on one aspect of the case at a time it might feel better and let a player focus more.

Some of these endings really were pretty wild. You can also make decisions in a way that can alter the context or meaning of the 'blade runner' ending, similiar in way one might question the meaning of the ending and Gaff's words at the end of the movie.

Curious what I mean?[major spoiler] Who is the she gaff refers to? On the surface it seems like he's speaking about Ray's Dog. But if it's in reference to Crystal it could be deeper depending on your decisions.

The decision to kill Gouza, several cops along the way and even a fellow blade runner I came myself to believe that I am a replicant (as a player I mean) and that i am forced to join the replicants, that there is no way out anyway. Then i realized it's hopeless with the replicants too. That the guy trying to fix the ship is delusioanl. Ship crashed, it isnt going anywhere, so i kill them too. Result? I'm the last replicant. I walk out of the ship expecting to be shot, arrested or suicide or belly up any minute like boss man, I walk out of the ship to find... Gaff congratulating me. Tells me my fellow blade runner was a rep, good job retiring her. My confusion dissolves into basically playing along: 'yeah a rep...' Clearly nobody knows anything and well nobody cares because only the living get paid. It's just another dirty day in law enforcement (Jason Taverner style)

Gaff doesnt care who is real and who isnt as long as the day ends tidy (and someone is left to keep tomorrow tidy) And this is imo the big tie in between the writing and the movie that the game really gets right. If the player has to make the decision to kill a human, or winds up starting to question if they have been killing humans, or it becomes a slippery slope to killing cops as they chase you, it starts to drive home the uncertainty and blur the lines.

This descent can occur through voight kampf error or through the fact that some humans and replicants are randomly assigned in each playthrough, so mistakes can be made. But killing gouza and crystal are the big tickets, as they dont just create a slipping into descent but get the player to jump in, and it can really change the context of gaff's final words and indicates he knows you are a murderer, and a rep but also doesnt care, because you did your job as bladerunner.