Overall, still love the game and plan to do multiple playthroughs to try different paths. It just bugged me that this wasn't telegraphed better. The cut choice early on really makes it seem like dispatch performance is irrelevant to the plot, but it isn't.

I'd be less annoyed if I didn't seem to have strong disagreements with whoever wrote the clue prompts about what skill they're hinting at all the time, or could replay solely those sequences. I didn't want to replay whole episodes just to get better dispatch results.

Same. Eagle Park is on hold until the US government figures it shit out and Guardians is a non-starter until WW3 isn't one bad meeting away.

Man, remember when we thought it was going to take 40 years to get really bad? That was silly of us.

Episode 5 has possibly the greatest credits music of all time.

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History loves repeating itself. Disconnected elites start thinking they don't need the masses. Something, something, bloody revolution ensues.