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3.0Its fantastic art and concept cannot help Mainlining on Switch from being an absolute chore to play.
Mainlining
Rebelephant · Jan 26, 2017
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Mainlining - The Cyber Espionage Hacking Sim, mixes dark and dry humour with gameplay that echoes old school point and click adventures. Following the government's introduction of the BLU Pill Act and the Secret Intelligence Service's reintroduction of MI7, all online personal data is accessible by the powers that be. Mainlining questions techno-ethics and whether it is acceptable for an organisation to have the power to look at personal data. What if someone else got the key to that?
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- GameSpew8.0Mainlining succeeds at being a genuinely compelling and interesting detective game that its many small irritations don’t ruin the experience too much. You may find yourself wrongly accusing someone because the game wanted a very particular piece of evidence, but its entertaining nature means you don’t much care. Just wait a week or two until the bugs and glitches are sorted out. But hey, it is a realistic experience of Windows XP, after all.
- Hardcore Gamer7.0Though not the first of its kind and by no means the most original tale spun from out this current trend of liberty-vouching discussion, Mainlining is a smart and cleverly put-together point-and-click piece that is layered enough with its puzzles but prominently more effective in its use of real World culture in providing that added sense of personally historic immersion.
- NintendoLife4.0Mainlining fails to really provide any interesting commentary on its chosen subject matter, revelling instead in caricatures we’ve all experienced a hundred times before; stuff you’ll have seen done better in any Grand Theft Auto game that has parody websites involved. Its gameplay too often degenerates into trial-and-error and lacks any sort of consequences for the player getting things wrong, which renders the whole investigative process pretty much pointless.
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