Aaron Riccio's Reviews
The game does a fine job of narratively showing the way in which a person can be broken down and made to believe anything.
It can't step out of the silhouette of its most brilliant predecessor, Portal.
There are plenty of military engagements in Breakpoint, but none of them are particularly engaging.
Each part is so overflowing with jokes, ideas, characters, and charm that you won't want to separate from the whole game.
For all of the work that Deck 13 has put into creating an intriguing city, the actual exploration is sometimes marred by technical issues.
The game is boorish, infantile, and violent, and, in refusing to take any sort of consistent stand, is wildly off the mark.
Without a sense of feedback or progress, the rambling, leisurely narrative of Telling Lies comes across as unfocused.
Our ancestors didn't have it easy, and that's the for-better-and-worse message reverberating through every interaction in the game.
Even when the game isn't actively shooting itself in the foot, it never entirely succeeds.
The more often you get stuck with the same items and abilities, the more redundant and shallow the game feels.