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Glitchpunk is a flawed mess but kind of fun to roll in

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A bald man in a yellow suit holos in, telling you to complete the mission. While you rattle bullets into hackers outside a facility.
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Daedalic Entertainment

I don't think Glitchpunk is capital-G Good. I don't even know if it's okay. It's showing several signs of not feeling very well, and I went back and forth several times on whether or not to send it over to talk to you.

It is, in a word, an intentional throwback to GTA 2. Drive to phones, do jobs for (noticeably less juvenile) colourful characters for cash and reputation change across three vying gangs. For a fresh spin, you're an android now, able to install special power doodads and do a hacking on some obstacles and people, Watch Underscore Dogs style. Which winds up less exciting than it was probably dreaming of, before cruel reality set in, and it had to settle for being sort of fun, in a janky, mildly masochistic way.

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