There is a very good 52-part playthrough of the game on ***Youtube***. It's almost like playing the game yourself because the uploader is playing it for the first time himself and isn't trying to play at light speed and doesn't click through all the conversations before you have a chance to read them.

So anyone who is avoiding the game because of SecuROM (or, like me, who couldn't get it to play on their computers because of the SecuROM) can watch the Youtube playthrough and see what the game is about and form their own opinion of the story.

My opinion is that they made both characters very unlikeable so
(mild spoiler)
At least what it looked like to me was that
(big time spoiler)
I don't think the strategy of using unlikeable characters worked very well. Many people were put off of the game because of the unpleasant characters, and it didn't diminish the disappointment at the end of the game.

"I don't think the strategy of using unlikeable characters worked very well."

It was a terrible idea and I can't imagine how anyone could enjoy making a game like that or be proud of it once it was done. I play adventure games to enjoy myself; that game was about as enjoyable as banging your head repeatedly on the monitor.

The publisher and developers can congratulate themselves for being directly responsible for my new resolution to be a lot more careful about buying a new game before I have a darned good idea what I'm getting.

Gil.