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But at the end of the day, they're still info-dumps, and I wish there was a better way to incorporate them into the game naturally. Those documents are an important part of giving the world of Quantum Break much-needed weight, and they help lift the story's complexity above most games.

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Major character motivations are often revealed well in advance through the text, and much more plainly stated than in the game's cutscenes (and sometimes even the TV show).

And yet, much of the text feels nearly essential to getting the most out of the story.

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In a game where every hour or two of gameplay is punctuated by a full half-hour television episode, to also have the gameplay split up by long portions of text-reading does a great deal to kill the game's momentum. We already live in an era where the audio-log style of delivering story elements feels long in the tooth (also see: Bioshock Infinite), but Quantum Break goes one further and asks you to do a whole lot of reading. Most of these documents are rather long, often requiring two or three minutes to read. Much of Quantum Break's story is told through emails and documents found in the game world. But the biggest issue is in how the story is delivered, and here we run into what may be an unsolvable problem. Other characters feel mostly throwaway, there to fill whatever role is required of them at the time rather than someone with an actual agenda. Worse, at least one character is an insufferable caricature more than an actual person. The first two acts are mostly setup, which is understandable, but the dialogue is occasionally groan-worthy. There are fundamental issues, and they mostly have to do with pacing. We'll start with the best part of Quantum Break: Time Knife the story. Quantum Break is equal parts frustrating and revelatory, a game whose problems run deeper than just a lack of polish but a game that accomplishes things few other games manage. 'Mediocre' implies a game that never moves the player emotionally, a game that's just there. To me, Quantum Break is the opposite: an ambitious game with very serious issues. Elsewhere on NeoGAF, people have described Quantum Break as the most polished mediocre game they've ever played.