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Windows look more like the sagging plastic sheeting you see in construction zones than glass. Kate's omnipresent infant never once moved in its mother's arms, and I found myself wondering if it was dead or alive. Watching Cindy the Slut preening for Jake was much like omni watching a stop-motion film, the arm jerking back and back and back. Some interiors were hardly more than sketches. The sheriff's office corkboard was completely blank, as was the in-box (until the very omni end ...). Sure, Sheriff Lee says he runs a tight town, but even a Mom's Diner menu would have been nice. omni Character-driven stories depend on astute placement of detail to flesh out a believable world. In a game, we take visual cues from a character's surroundings. Brendel succeeded best in the mostly ignored barber shop and to a point in the general store and bar, but in Jake's house, all of City Hall, the laundromat, church, motel, cemetery, and gas station we encounter starkly empty locales with almost zero interactivity.
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