If you don’t have enough cops you can’t respond to crimes, and if you can’t respond to crimes you can’t earn ringpulls (inexplicably the department’s main currency) for new cops, which means you can’t respond to crimes, and if you don’t earn ringpulls for three days running it’s game over. The various systems make it incredibly easy to enter a fail spiral. Eventually the sexist comments feel less like commentary and more like window dressing.
But when Boyd arrives he takes over both as leader and as protagonist, and the focus shifts towards him and his web of corruption. It’s a crying shame because the voice actors are doing a terrific job, but I found myself tuning out long before they got to the point.Īt first the story feels like it’s going to be about Sheriff Reed’s struggles with institutional sexism, as she’s constantly receiving misogynistic comments from both co-workers and criminals.
Every conversation feels full of fat that can be cut, like an early scene in which Boyd and a door to door salesman have an extremely long winded chat about toilets that may or may not be a veiled threat. In practice however the game has a penchant for rambling Tarantino-esque dialogue that goes on far, far too long. The snowy town of Sharpwood has a Fargo-esque vibe (and a Fargo-esque crime rate) that serves as a nice change of pace from the big city of Freeburg. In theory, this is a strong setup for a story.
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