The game actually has half decent reviews. Sitting at 78 on Metacrtic.

I was actually really enjoying the game up to a certain point, but the last half hour or so has you retreading so much dialogue and the ending is so flabbergastingly bad that it really soured the whole experience. 

A lot of the Kojima hate comes from how he portrayed Quiet in MGS5.

I played through the game and enjoyed the puzzle mechanics a lot. The violent and drugging parts were hard but preceded by intense repeated moments. First, I never shot the cop on the ground after I tied him up. That is completely optional and apparently your sick mind thought that up. Second, the drugging only starts…

Not really, it’s just a bit fucked up, nothing to make such a fuss about.

Well if it has everyone this upset I guess videogames really are art.

You only have to drug her once. You can finish the story in under twelve loops. This means you personally CHOSE to keep drugging your wife. 

I think this game is flawed, but fantastic. I wholeheartedly and respectfully disagree with your assessment. (By the way, this is coming from a survivor of domestic violence, so I know a thing or two about trauma.) 

The author is clearly focused on the husband bad actions, while she purposelly ignoring the wife bad actions. The obvious explanation to both is, gamification at the expense of the characters, and to make better use of the time loop, but let’s evaluate it at face value like the author did.

The very first loop, probably…

Both characters are messed up. The main character and the wife.

She does commit patricide and steal an expensive watch. Was it justified? Possibly, but she is a very good liar. When you don’t have proof, but confront her with the fact she murdered her father and stole the watch, she’ll deny it, play the victim card…

The game developers had a big issue. Most of the story is moved by dialog. If all the answers were in dialogue, it’d make the game less interactive.So they filled in the details to give you as much freedom as possible and make the AI seem realistic. The whole point of the game is trying to break the loop, and you can…

Also, there’s a really graphic animation for stabbing your wife to death in the game for…some reason?

What the everloving fuck did I just try to read? 

Hate how this is written.

Two points here. One, did you read the ESRB/PEGI rating before playing? While it wouldn’t cover the incest or violence against women specifically, it would tell you in broad strokes that you’re playing a Rated M game, and why they thought it should have that rating.

It is labelled as a review though. It says so in the SEO headline.

In lieu of the conversation surrounding adult content, how it’s advertised, and how it’s consumed, there are two other conversations that have been completely ignored in the coverage of this game that I just want to very quickly point out to anyone who may have skipped over it because bad writing.

The problem is if you know the specifics of the story, there really isn’t much game there as the entire thing is figuring out what to do to progress the loops. Knowing you need to drug your wife and shoot the cop in the leg before interrogating him could easily cut the total playtime of this game in half (if not more).

Also, there’s a really graphic animation for stabbing your wife to death in the game for…some reason? No one’s quite sure.