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>>719868591
Honestly kinda calling bullshit that the devs are the "victims" here since the gameplay sucks too.
If the game itself was amazing but the writing sucked ass, then maybe, but the game's writing is only one part of why the game ended up being so awful.

There's also a bit too much of this "oh yeah well the whole game would've been SR2+3 but better and PERFECT with tons and tons of content, but nope, sorry lol" for my tastes, especially after 3+4+GooH. That's a long time for a dev to suddenly go "okay we're just gonna 180 out of nowhere" and release exactly the game fans want.
I also think we would've heard a dev say SOMETHING bad by now too, someone saying how they wish they could've done this or that, or that censorship made X or Y impossible, but nah, 14 years since SR3 and suddenly this Youtuber starts listing off reasons why it's not the fault of the devs and how amazing the game was going to be despite the devs' previous track record.
(Only slightly related, I hope the SR reboot's social media manager got an actual boot shoved entirely up their actual ass.)

>>719869164
No. A vertical slice is an important thing to distinguish.
"Demos" are usually either just the first bit of a game where you're spending a lot of time on tutorials and doing easy shit, or the devs cut out some 10/10 segment late into the game and have that be the demo to wow you.
A vertical slice means you get a bit of everything assembled into a neat little chunk to show off all the things you can expect in a game