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Second Helping
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/29/2019
Two years after the cult classic cyberpunk tabletop RPG, “Shadowrun,” made its inglorious return in the form of “Shadowrun Returns,” Indie development house, Harebrained Schemes, released the third and final (for now) “Shadowrun” scenario based on that basic CRPG template. This scenario, over-simplistically entitled “Hong Kong,” is the work of a pared-down and slightly rearranged development team, with a new producer and a co-director, but most of the key people remaining in their posts. After playing this game’s predecessor, “Dragonfall,” I had in mind a minimum level of quality to expect from these Harebrained Schemed ‘Shadowrun’ titles, and “Hong Kong” successfully met that threshold… though did little to exceed it.
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