Been a long time since I checked in with Adastra. In the beginning I did enjoy it, Amicus is still a sweet numbskull, but as things went on my enjoyment really took a nose dive. The story just sort of wandered about unfocused. The side characters a woefully undeveloped. Cassius, Virginia, Nerferu, Alex, and hell even Cato really didn't get much to do other than background stuff we're not really privy too.
Cato assassinated his friend, and former Emperor, and we are never really told why. People have guessed it had to do with reforms he was trying to do, or making peace with the Khemians. But never a solid answer. Then the whole Parents thing and their control over the events is a dissolution of free will. There's no real choices in the game of consequence other than the rejection of the Parents and then you get a game over. This would have been better off as an actual novel than a visual novel. The story focusing too much on the minutiae while there is this great story of political intrigue, a possible war between the space wolves and jackals, higher dimensional beings fighting some kind of war, and a murder mystery going on.
Yet it never really develops beyond just window dressing.
But my biggest problem with the game was the MC. Marco is just such a whiny ass. His attitude is off putting, and his interactions with the others is equally repellent to me. Marco is an inconsistent character, at times he's the smartest person in the room and yet at others he is as thick as a brick.
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