i'm not trying to hate or anything, as i've never developed a game myself so i don't know how hard it can be. unfortunately, there just wasn't enough character development here and that's a major reason why it fell flat. the characters have their own mistakes, but they're not bad people. the first game isn't as guilty of this, which is one reason why it's so much better. there's not really any suspense or attachment there to make letting go so hard, and as a result have a lot of appeal for a sequel or even the game itself. you're kind of like "damn that sucks," and you just move on with your life. like, you care probably as much as you'd care about hearing about the death of a complete stranger in the news, maybe a little more. when you make every single character douchey (albeit to varying degrees) it just makes you not really care what happens one way or another to each one.
I hate when games or movies do this with the character development, it honestly just removes all the suspense that it would otherwise have. Kind of defeats the point of it being a digital entity, doesn't it? At that point, the Rippleman is more just a ghost, and it's only real connection to being a Simulacra is making deals about social media. Also, while it was obviously paranormal, it didn't float in the air and move freely through space. That's what the Spark Simulacra was doing it was creating fake online personas that were "perfect" versions of the real people to lure in and assimilate more victims.
Also, it doesn't really fulfill the purpose of the Simulacra the name in the first one makes sense because the definition of a simulacrum is a symbol or imitation of something. I also expected the game to follow the one from the first game as well, since that one implied its aim was to wipe out all of humanity I kind of expected this one to establish that it was spreading. It's not nearly as eerie or as menacing as the one in the first game, it's more weird, and it behaves much more like a ghost now than an unknowable A.I. I think my biggest problem with this game is the Simulacra itself.
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