YMMV / Technobabylon

• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The friendship between Regis and Max is shown to be very strong throughout the story:
    • Regis is the entire reason Max is a CEL agent in the first place. She was a cyberhacker for years before she was caught by Regis. Instead of locking her up, he convinced her to change her ways and gave her a second chance at CEL.
    • If you have Max examine the body in the apartment then ask her about it, she will reveal to Regis that she is actually a trans woman. While he is initially surprised (mostly because her transition is so complete that he would never have known if she hadn't told him), he otherwise takes it perfectly. He doesn't make a big deal out of it one way or another and he is respectful with his follow up questions. He simply thanks her for being willing to share it with him and continues treating her as an equal for the rest of the story. Max is actually so comfortable telling Regis about it that she even cracks a few jokes about it. It just shows how strong their friendship truly is.
    • The reason Max opened up about is because she caught Regis at his private memorial site to his wife. She understands that it must be difficult for him to talk about it when he did, so she feels the need to share with him as well.
    • When Nina has Regis brought to meet her conspirators, she initially tells Regis to leave Max behind, but Regis outright refuses, saying Max is the only is the only person he trusts. Max lets out a touched aww at this.
• The Scrappy: Latha's easily the least popular of the three playable characters, due to being a Trance-addicted NEET, engaging in adventure game cruelty far more often than the others, and being nothing but an abrasive jerk to Regis, her own father, to the point of straining justification over Regis' unwitting murder attempt. Compare this to the incredibly sympathetic Regis and charming, wise-cracking Lao.
• That One Achievement: Winning the game of Gravball in Chapter 7 without using drugs is incredibly frustrating. By the fourth volley the ball's moving so fast that you have to begin your swing before your opponent's, but because your opponent can hit the ball from any point on his side, it's basically down to luck whether or not the timing will be right and you'll connect.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Latha having a grudge against Regis over his murder attempt would be understandable, if it weren't for the fact that Regis was blackmailed into doing it, and as far as he was aware, all he was doing was bombing an empty apartment (the player can even get him to "confirm" multiple times that nobody will be hurt by his actions.) Latha won't hear any of this, though; Even though she knows that Regis was deceived and used by someone else, she still repeatedly lays into him for the bombing and acts like an abrasive Jerkass towards him.
• The Woobie:
  • The suicide bomber. Aside from just being a teenager, and all the brainwashing and mental conditioning that would make him willing to blow himself up, he also has to walk around on crutches because the biological engineering to make his bones grow explosives instead of calcium comes with a myriad of health problems, which he's had to deal with his entire life. He also screws up his mission and ends up trapped in an empty monorail car, lamenting that he's failed in his purpose and will now have to blow himself up while accomplishing nothing. Fortunately, Regis can talk him down and get him to surrender to the police to get his life back on track and hopefully gets the explosives removed. Unfortunately, Central has him euthanized instead.
  • Regis. His entire life is a cavalcade of misery and loss, from being forced to make vat-grown suicide bombers at gunpoint for Texan warlords, to losing his wife at the hands of one of his colleagues, to being blackmailed by the Mindjacker into being his pawn.