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Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a very odd game

I wrote this rather long review of the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution on PC (released in 2011, played in 2021), which turned out to be too long for either a Metacritic or Steam review. So here it is in all its glory.

Weapon

I picked Peter up from school just like normal. He was all happy to see me, laughing and singing some new song, waving goodbye loudly to his friends. We got to the car and I strapped him into the booster seat in the back, his legs kicking. Maybe I admonished him for making it harder for me than it needed to be. That's the kind of thing I do. We took off, and drove for a couple of miles, listening to his Peppa Pig songs on the car hi-fi, him singing along, sometimes replacing the lyrics with his own made up words. I sang along to the bits I knew, but I was concentrating on driving. We stopped at a traffic light not far from home. There was no traffic in front of us. As the lights changed to green, a woman walked out in front of the car, slowly and deliberately. From her posture she could have been lightly pregnant or a little overweight, aged anywhere between mid twenties and late thirties. She stopped in front of the car, glanced at me, then away to my left. As my eyes followed her...

The reason for Youtube comments

Ian, I'm going to call time soon. Do you want another? "Yeah, go on then. But since the bar's quiet, do you want to hear how back in the day, us lads in the PropOps department made the online world what it is now? How we changed the path of online discourse, and, arguably, changed the world?" Sounds as gripping as ever. Why not. Your tab's £35.60. "Our boys in R&D came up with a killer form of encryption. I think they came up with the idea for fun, just throwing stuff around, but we ran with it and it ended up being maybe the sharpest weapon in our arsenal. Want to guess what it was?" No idea. Hit me. "Youtube comments." I guess you don't mean getting people to conduct top-secret conversations in the comments section. "Nope. Have a guess how we used them." I dunno... some daft code, like 'the sarcastic cormorant is in Grandfather's playpen'? Nah, you wouldn't bother telling me that. Maybe....

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