I mean, I’ve been browsing this subreddit for a few days now, and all I’ve read about the story is, either it’s incomprehensible, it sucks, or at best it’s interesting, but nothing more.

Being a big sci-fi fan, I find the game’s story a kind of mix between Matrix, Mass Effect and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

What I like most of all in the stories is the mystery. Not the complete mystery where you don’t understand anything, but the mystery that makes you ask questions, that lets the viewer (or actor in the case of a video game) imagine what could have happened off-screen.

And NMS does this very well. The story answers a number of questions, but leaves the player to make up his or her own mind about key points of the story.