thogek's reviews
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Pink Tuxedo attempts to tell an everyman main character's story of personal development and realization as he awakens from a future society permeated with AI-driven augmented and virtual reality to discover the joys of real-life personal interaction and sense of family. Think along the lines of Ready Player One, but more focused on the individual's journey than on remedying the world's somewhat dystopic state.

However, the attempt doesn't really work so well for me. Pink Tuxedo's storyline seems largely arbitrary, a somewhat blank-slate young man listlessly drifting across an unlikely series of interactions, speaking and receiving dialog that's almost always too awkwardly stilted to be real, receiving frequent philosophical infodumps that aren't necessarily wrong but are too often too naively blunt to be believable, etc., leaving the overall experience much too bland and unfulfilling. 

Lots of fast-developing fun adventure. Some of the plot twists and saves were a bit too convenient (and/or unlikely) to be believed, but still a fun romp overall.