Colin O'Brien

There are a lot of things I found to be imperfect about this game but above all, the story writing and character dialogues were really the worst for me. The pawns dialogues are annoying and don’t add anything positive to the experience. Other npc interactions are dull, and you have to do a lot of digging to find a thread of a story that is ultimately not very exciting. More consideration could have been given to transport, there is way, WAY too much walking. The pawn system is interesting but feels half baked. The idea of having two rotating slots on your team makes them feel meaningless. That aside the combat is fun, and physical environment interactions like climbing and sliding etc are done excellently. The graphics are great even if the art direction lacks originality.

As a period piece it is stunning and there’s plenty to please the eyes, the cast are all doing a stellar job with the material they’ve been given but the writing feels lukewarm and underdeveloped. Wiig's character is neither deranged nor loveable enough to really drive the plot. A similar story was actually done to much greater effect by Mark Cherry in season 2 of Why Women Kill, and actually I haven’t been able to stop thinking how great it could have been if he had been involved because Abe Sylvia does not use the tools of camp humour nearly as competently.