What the thread title says.
The way it persues themes that 90% of games would never dare to look into, themes like patricide, suicide, graphic violence, religions, the boundaries between sentient AI's and humanity, the whole plots about sex dolls and braindances - even tho its heavy influenced by genre classics like Neuromancer and Strange days - iam just glad they had the balls to pull all of this off, instead of some generic "heroic" (and most importantly 'safe' and non-controversial) story like most of these hyped up AAA games. the writing is just phenomenal, and the side questchains centered around important characters do offer so many memorable moments - Judy's and Panam's stories and romances, RIvers search for the serial killer, the Peralez couple, Kerry and the Samurai reunion, the Sinnerman etc, i think most games would give up everything for just a couple of those.
I've never been more immersed and invested in a story and gameworld in general, games like Mass Effect, Witcher 3 and RDR2 included, which are highly praised in that regard. And the important characters have more soul and personality, than any game I've ever played.
That being said, Iam sure it could use more content, also the pacing is weird, like Johnny's and Kerry's questlines are among the best in this game imo, yet many people may very well miss those, i would add at least one main q before the date with Hanako.
And one more thing, i think its a shame, that you have no way to distinguish the regular generic side gigs from the actual cool ones, like Pepe' wife, Brandon the soda machine, Skippy etc etc, again most people will miss those, because theres no way to find out about them.
I must say iam probably lucky, havent experienced any game or immersion breaking bugs, i mean if the story is your main ace in the sleeve, you better be sure it works properly. everyone will give a pass to openworld related bugs, there are lots of those in every game.
And let me be clear, iam not trying to defend things that are obviously bad or worse, like the pedestrian AI, the police system is outright laughable (although i hope that'll improve in time, theres like a frame of proper police system in there somewhere, if you ram a police car for example, they'll start chasing after you, shoot from the car, send the drones etc, like its supposed to be), no usual suff like appartment buying and character customisation and theres more, what i think is, that in comparrison to what the game has to offer, are those things forgivable. to me anyway.