The game is great and there are some fantastic elements that drive it forwards. Not to mention the way the 'card system' is set up you just want to play the game just to collect them all like some TCG junkie. The incentive to have a threesome with 2 nurses if you go the harder 'neutral' route actually has people replaying the game 3-4 times.

That being said there are a few quirky game play elements that did frustrate me a few times.

Quests update so fast and so quietly you're lefting going back to your journal to see just what you need to do as you lose track of the information. At one point 3 quests wents through 2-4 stages each during the course of 1 conversation and I got lost trying to complete a step I apparently finished an hour ago without me knowing it.

The enviromental elements are great and lend to the 'living world' but can lead to some quirks and odd circumstances. I was supposed to protect a 'working lady' at night and as I walked by the location during the day it was empty. That's fine, the incidents happen at night and so nothing is there by day. But during dusk as it turns night out walks the lady with all 6 of the thugs from the same building to take position and start their fight. Bring new meaning to 'kiss and make up' for a fight that only happens at night.

The bystander AI is also surprisingly realistic and surprisingly stupid at the same time. At night a flock of batlike creatures decends upon a begger lady and proceed to beat the crap out of her. I wade in with my deadly dance of the blade when some passerby charges into to yell encouragement to me. Since I'm spinning around willy nilly killing everything around me I 'accidentally' clip his head off because he got to close and now I'm being attacked by every bystander within a square block. That's stupid. Clearing through the piles of bodies that were the townspeople I notice that if I walk away from a corpse the 'begger' NPCs will flock to the bodies and start stripping them of valuables before fleeing the scene with the loot. That's brilliant!

I stopped playing for a while when I suffered a case of massive 'fail'. Apparently I did something that the game didn't like and an angry mob ran by and shot up the tavern in the 3 seconds I was standing outside to kill the NPC I was supposed to talk to causing me to fail 4 different quests. Definately not cool.

The load times as well are a game killer because you don't want to wait 3-4 minutes on a high end machine to get back to the action and you can't leave because you might miss something when it does load up.