Beat it. As I suspected, it took about 3 hours. Each half of Act 1 seems to be about 90 mins long, I don't actually have any issue with the content in Act 1, since it feels well designed, does a good job of introducing the player to the characters and the world, and the writing is good enough that it's humorous and interesting without trying too hard to be built around a specific twist. I found the revelations to be fairly predictable, and I think most who pay attention while playing through both stories will figure out what's going on, and that doesn't make it any less satisfying.
Difficulty wise it's pretty easy, but I appreciated that there was quite a bit of variety to the interaction in the game. It's all point and click but you're not doing the same stuff over and over. Vera's story has more dialogue stuff and interaction with other characters, while Shay's story has more fiddling with gadgets and interfaces. The music and voice work is great too.
My one concern at this point is that I want the game to be bigger than it appears it might be. Ideally Act 2 should be twice as large as Act 1 or more, or it's going to end up feeling like a pretty small game compared to the LucasArts greats. I think it's pretty fair to compare them, since Schafer himself has expressed in the documentary that it was what he was aiming for in terms of meeting expectations, because he didn't want to make a game which felt lacking in content considering how big the Kickstarter got.
The setting they have created for the game certainly doesn't lack in scale and scope, and the ending of Act 1 suggests many possibilities for how much larger the game could be, so I guess the only question is whether they can afford to make the game as big as they want to at this point.
I like that AI (And the little sock dudes)
