You know what, the fixed bathroom bug is a bigger deal than it sounds. First run I got Jack stuck between a urinal and some dialogue about his missing friend Mike and honestly? Felt like a metaphor for the whole noir detective thing. Trapped in piss soaked limbo while the past catches up. But now it actually works so you can move through that sleazy bar without the game shitting itself.

Jackob Badalamenti. Even the name feels like it's trying too hard and I kind of love it. He's looking for Mike, sure, but really he's settling scores with his past. Whatever that means. The writing has this broken english charm where sometimes a line lands like a punch and other times it's just... words happening. Met this woman in a back alley who definitely wasn't a cop and definitely wasn't telling the truth about anything. The sex scene that followed was still being "worked on" according to the dev notes and you can tell. Positioning is weird. Faces do things faces shouldn't do. But there's this moment where she's on top and the rain effect from outside the window catches on her shoulder and for one second the whole thing feels intentional. Then her arm clips through his chest and the moment's gone.

The speed enhancement helps. Thank god. The original pacing must have been torture because even now conversations drag a bit before someone's clothes come off. But when they do? It's that specific kind of janky 3D erotica where everything's slightly wrong but somehow hotter for it. Like finding an old VHS tape you weren't supposed to see. The detective stuff is barely there honestly. You click around, people show up, sometimes they're hostile, sometimes they're horny. One guy pulled a knife and two scenes later I was balls deep in his girlfriend while he bled out in the next room. Noir as fuck or just bad design? Who cares. It works.