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Nope, the bad writing has totally killed my desire to play. And my points can't really change, they just are. It doesn't matter if the rest of the game has amazing writing, THAT bit of writing is objectively bad.
I got that far. It doesn't justify it. Show don't tell. And for video games, give control don't take control. These are cardinal rules.
I understand someone can have a justification for a bad choice. Most people have that. It doesn't make the choice good. Ever heard of a little game called The Last of Us 2? They had all kinds of reasons for the narrative decisions they made. Still turned out to be one of the worst stories in gaming history.
Because you have no agency, no ability to change any significant outcome of the game, and even if you make the choices to try to send Andreas back on a more positive outcome the game won't let you. So he is completely ineffectual, nothing he does matters, and he ultimately betrays all of his stated ideals and what the game is telling you you are supposed to do.
It's loathsome. If you want bleak dystopian fiction, go read the Death of Ivan Ilyich. But I feel that I might as well have watched a youtube play of this game.
Because none of my choices matter at all, even who I want to play the character as.