Deus Ex: Mankind Divided/YMMV

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Did Viktor Marchenko believe any of his Pro-Augment rhetoric or was he just a Smug Snake Hypocrite? Was he actually doing any of his actions willingly or just The Pawn for the Illuminati?
  • Does Miller suspect his superiors to be involved with the Illuminati or is he completely unaware of their existence?
  • Are Samizdat complete jokes as media representatives or is the world just that weird?
• Author's Saving Throw: After the "Augment your Pre-order" program was widely criticized by fans, Square-Enix listened to the complaints and cancelled the program. The game was released on the same day for everyone, and all of the pre-order content that was to be a part of the program were made available to anyone to who pre-orders. As of January 2017, the pre-order content is available to anyone that owns Mankind Divided.
• Contested Sequel: While gameplay has been significantly improved along with a tighter focus on stealth and exploration and the graphics have greatly improved, the story is widely considered to be worse than the first game due to it obviously being the second game in a trilogy (and thus ending unsatisfyingly) and the game has had a lot of issues with its rather notable microtransaction service, which has been widely criticized.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Aria Argento is a surprisingly well-liked character despite the fact she only does the gun tutorial and has some commentary on social issues. The fact she's a cute Augmented Nice Girl who really wants to help the world made her quite popular with players sick of NPCs with hidden agendas.
• Genius Bonus: Golem City is in Prague as well as a ghetto, referring to when the golem was the protector of Prague's Jewish ghetto.
• Porting Disaster: A really mixed bag on this one- while the in-game options for the PC port are varied and massive almost to the point of absurdity, with every little possible thing being able to be turned on and off, the actual port itself is a jumbled mess of horrible code and terrible optimization, along with being a massive resource hog. Gamers have reported hourly crashes, FPS drops despite well exceeding the required hardware and more, along with long (and frequent) loading screens. This is especially jarring since the same company handled the PC porting of the previous game without any issues.
  • Thankfully, by late 2017, the issues seem to have been smoothed over, if recent reviews and firsthand accounts are anything to go off.
• What An Idiot:
  • Smiley writing adventure novels with employees' real names about their top secret adventures. Yes, that will go over well.
  • For all his Properly Paranoid attitude about the Juggernaut Collective, Chang's completely missed that Smiley is writing books for mass publication about their activities with real names.
  • Radich needs to keep his augmentation a secret in his gang, but regularly sleeps with hookers.