Review GigaDeathNullGolem 2/5 · Sep 13, 2025
Aged Badly, Bad Writing, Acting & Gameplay, But Had cool visuals & a Few Interesting Narrative ideas
For the most part this is a terrible FMV game. I had always been curious to play it but its really annoying to play and has aged badly in so many ways. It's a mix of adventure FMV sequences similar to the Journeyman Project mixed with less-than-fun shooting sequences. like JP series, The puzzles are wacky and obtuse. Walking …
For the most part this is a terrible FMV game. I had always been curious to play it but its really annoying to play and has aged badly in so many ways. It's a mix of adventure FMV sequences similar to the Journeyman Project mixed with less-than-fun shooting sequences. like JP series, The puzzles are wacky and obtuse. Walking around in this is awful. you move in pathed sequences (and it's never a straight line) and its really easy to get disoriented (It's well worse than Journeyman Project) There are also random progress checkpoints in one part of the game where its not really clear you did what you needed to. The worst feature? You have two hours to complete it before your Johnny Mnemonic Cortex bomb goes off. Now the good things:
Predates the Johnny Mnemonic movie by a year.
Has a very good William Gibson tone to it.
Has some neat ideas about "Cyberspace," and digital immortality
Has some awesome Lawnmower Man type CGI sequences
Has Funny-but-stupid humorous one liners.
Has a Rather good 90's synth soundtrack by Simon Boswell
However, the overall story is pretty muddled, the acting is awful, and so much of the writing is terrible in some places. And much of the game just plain looks bad in most places. These kind of put a very low ceiling on it. It made for a good two hour let's play though anyway for it's better bits.
