Most people don't make 100 % original games, but making games in less crowded genres or with unusual premises can have a similar, though less absolute effect. (zeboyd.com)
Midnight Deluxe brings with it a competent visual environment and decent control systems for a game with a rather unusual premise. (metacritic.com)
Were Tobe Hooper to have retained the directorial reins (he left the project due to «creative differences» during production), one can imagine his particularly acute ability to interweave social contexts within unusual premises might have made at least some sense of the screenplay's inherent silliness. (slantmagazine.com)