Prime Junta
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Yep. The gameplay is very annoying and quite challenging even on easy unless you have a console controller plugged in and also some actual experience with the damn thing. Or if you're using a keyboard then it helps to be a pro piano player or something . I still don't know how I managed to put up with all the crap but the story was just too good to quit as far as I can remember. Fahrenheit was an awesome overall experience despite the crappy gameplay.
IMO Fahrenheit would've made for a fantastic art-house sci-fi/horror film. Or a comic, perhaps. But as a *game*... I have to say I'm with bkrueger here: it kinda sucked. It was a perfectly linear narrative interspersed with button-clicking hoops you had to jump through. I didn't find it particularly difficult (but then I'm a pretty fast and accurate typist); I just thought it was in entirely the wrong medium.
And yes, the story, characters, and settings were great (despite occasional warts like the cheesiest sex scene in any game ever, and taking a whizz to avoid going suicidal). But that's not enough for a game -- you still need gameplay plus one or two other things, and that Fahrenheit just didn't deliver.
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