Sam Lake wants to compete with Nolan and Kojima. He loves creating needlessly confusing story.
Sam lake also wrote Max Payne and that had straight forward solid story and everyone loved it
Tbh i will not enjoy AW1 if i play it today.
AW 1 was good back when it was released. It felt fresh and unique in 2010 but today i will not enjoy AW1 style gameplay.
I did 3 playthroughs.
2 female V runs - Romance option - Judy and Riverz.
1 male run - Romance Option - Panam.
Its very rare i play RPG games more than once. Last time i did more than 2 playthrough for RPG game was Dragon Age Origins.
CD Project Red knocked it out of the park with Cyberpunk 2077.
Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk both are games of the Generations for me.