Mars: War Logs isn't a great RPG, but it is at least the seed of one – and a seed with some surprisingly green shoots sticking out of it, given that it's an attempt to pull off an epic in the style of Mass Effect or The Witcher 2 on a fraction of the budget. There's a definite underdog charm to its 10 or so hours of overly ambitious action, and while it shoots for the moon and mostly misses, every now and again it lands a solid hit – especially during its regular arcade punch-ups.
You wouldn't suspect it from the opening, though. MWL kicks things off not just clumsily, but as charmlessly as RPG openers get. It's a sloppily translated time of war on Mars, and a young soldier named Innocence – yes, really – is about to be violently raped in his POW camp's sand showers by a foul-mouthed fat man. Subtlety is not Mars: War Logs' speciality. From that scene to the sledgehammer-like nature of the dialogue and the many characters with ironic "virtue" names like Morality and Charity.
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