I’m going to be honest with you: I have no idea what Hard Reset is about.
Indeed, the problem is even more fundamental and more deeply rooted than that: I have legitimately no idea what is happening in this game.
As a disciple of electronic entertainment simulations, I’ve endured some pretty miserable narrative constructs. I managed to make some kind of broken, incomplete sense out of games like Vanquish, and endured the emotional incompetence of Gears of War, so I feel like I’ve run the gauntlet of bad videogame stories and come out the other side with my sanity mostly intact.
Hard Reset, however, elevates poor storytelling to an artform—though, fortunately, it doesn’t make the game any less fun.