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TLDR: Turns out its an okay game with wacky gameplay design decisions along with a insufferable Protagonist and his talking hand. Wait for a sale if you dont have gamepass. Game is worth on a surface level.

This is a prime example of an awesome vision with not so great execution. Unfortunately you will see a lot of the reviews praising it for having robot mommies and nothing else... The game has an awesome atmosphere that is CONSTANTLY cut into with the annoying protagonist with the atrocious writing. the first two hours are non stop unlocking doors and doing very simple but tedious puzzles ( all while the protagonist makes duke nukem jokes to nintendo power glove ) eventually when you finish what seems like a 2 hour tutorial you are let "free" in what seems to be an open world. That is where the game immediately died for me. You soon realize the game is going to be just frustrating to play to the point that you can not explore the mysterious and creative world, for example; there are cameras that will spot you. If spotted you now have to run and hide or kill robots. the robots are all extremely frustrating to fight and jump all around the screen which you cant even keep track of due to no FOV slider in the game. Then, If you kill robots during this there is a GTA wanted level that spawns more robots. THEN, if you shoot the camera a robot will come and repair it. So there is no clearing out the area to explore, there will ALWAYS be enemies which sounds cool until almost every enemy is really irritating to deal with ( especially with 55 POV ). This game would of been incredible if they leaned into the mysterious and extremely unique atmosphere but instead they added dialogue that was just really a bummer to hear. Its not even to the point where it can be ignored. the protagonist and the glove talk SO much that while im doing something the dialogue would get cut off by OTHER dialogue because i started doing something else that they had to talk about. The worst part is there are moments where you go, "wow this is cool" only to have to deal with almost everything about the game being irritating.
EDIT 15 HOURS IN:
Used another program to Fix my FOV problem and tried the Russian voice actor.
FOV slider made the game Much MUCH more enjoyable for me but it was another software i had to download
Russian voice actor was way better. (less anime effect) but they talk so much and very quickly while the subtitles are small and out of the way that i could not keep up with it while solving puzzles or hectic combat. I know I'm a Boomer and, learn to READ ect. But its actually a skill issue for me i guess.
The game has warmed up to me in a lot of ways. I've been going around and collecting blueprints and exploring while dipping in and out of the main story, but there is still glaring issues. As I've been playing i continually have moment where i go WOW that is cool. unfortunately I ask "why?" even more. the WORST offender is the repair bots and cameras still. No they are not everywhere and, yes they can be disabled but once disabled they get repaired AGAIN. There are moments of combat on the over world, where i have to tell myself to just stop shooting the robots because they will just send more of these little repair bots over to repair what i just killed. its not hard, just frustrating and irritating more so than fun. But man when it is fun it kinda kicks ass. Its unfortunate that i really only find myself thinking that occasionally. Exploration is actually cool and there are some neat things to figure out and I've found myself enjoying it quite a bit. A very odd way of explaining it so far is the game seems over designed. It seems like its not sure what it wants its core gameplay Wants to be. i feel like the devs had something really awesome a while ago and kept adding more and more unneeded structure. If you actually pay attention to what is happening, you realize that you are running around solving Creative but mundane puzzles. See a few enemies. Dispatch them Them and repeat...
But then there is the off chance where you are BLASTING robots and flinging them into the air, while you get dropkicked and the music is POPPING TF OFF. You are absolutely grooving to it while SPLOOGING HOT ELECTRIC GOO from your Nintendo power glove. Then it ends and you ask why there isn't more of that in the game.
Will add more maybe when im done if i care still