I’ve now taken a few more steps on this journey, though still not terribly many. Escaped the mortuary and began exploring the surrounding area, talked with a lot of people, got many side quests, completed a few.

Everything feels kind of chaotic and overwhelming, which is to be expected when you enter a new large world of unknown laws and entities. Especially a world as strange, rich and intricate as this one.

I enjoy the experience, but not quite as much as I would have hoped, though there’s a good chance that will change as I get further into the game. In particular, I feel I need to get on with the main story, my propensity to explore has clearly gotten the best of me.

Part of the problem is that I’m not yet completely sold on the world and the characters, maybe I don’t find them entirely believable. It’s never an easy task for developers to create an alien world and make the players suspend their disbelief, might take a little while to have them convinced.