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I know I haven't played long enough to form a complete opinion, but I quickly understood why some people say, "The story is average and the characters aren't memorable," and still recommend the novel. Despite a story that hasn't done anything exciting yet, some of the dialogue choices are hilarious and I found myself smiling throughout the entirety of my play. But once I stopped I found nothing to pull me back to it, and whether I'd recommend it or not ultimately comes down to one thing:

It's supposed to be fully voiced, which is true except for the main character, who is also the narrator. I understand the design behind this choice. Leaving the main character without a voice gives the audience a chance to give him their own voice, but ultimately I found it immersion breaking and hard to follow. In the first twenty minutes, the main character/narrator is about 75% of the dialogue, which meant I couldn't turn my brain off and listen to the dialogue (like I hoped for with a "fully voiced" narrative). I enjoy reading on a good day, but when half of it is reading and half of it is voiced, the thought of getting back into it feels more like a chore than like fun.

For those of you who don't care that half of it is unvoiced--or those of you who prefer it that way--I 100% recommend just because it's quite well written.