Prey: 5 Reasons Why The Story Ultimately Fails

5. Operator?

Your guide through this memory hole-created maze is January, an Operator, who serves as a backup to Morgan's memory, which she/he (dependent on the sex you chose for your character) created during his three years at Talos I space base.

This already creates the first issue - since the Operator is a backup, why doesn't it inform Morgan about everything immediately, but instead makes him walk around the base looking for clues?

Obviously because the game would be much shorter, and not as mysterious.

January is one Operator that you can listen to, the other is December, a presumably older backup, who shows you the way to Alex's escape pod. The third "voice in your head" is your older brother himself, who provides a different narration of the events than January.

The objective, as we learn at the end, is to teach you empathy, but how is the opposition between January and Alex supposed to do that? It's not a choice between good and evil, saving lives or saving the planet from containment, but rather between trusting yourself or trusting your brother.

This is more about reality and memory, than empathy.