Prey: 5 Reasons Why The Story Ultimately Fails
3. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
You wake up on Monday, 15th of March 2032, put on your TranStar uniform and head for tests. When something goes wrong during said tests, you blackout and return to the exact same date, which makes you instantly suspicious.
From January you learn that Alex has tricked you, while from Alex you learn that you've tricked yourself. The issue that should be explored here is memory and consciousness, not empathy. In a sense, the plot would be better served with a Ghost in the Shell-like (referring to the anime, not the movie, obviously) exploration of what it means to be human.
You presumably start off as a human and enhance to become an alien, but at the end, learn that it's the other way round - you're an alien with human-like characteristics.
This were the accent should fall in the end, not on your ability to feel for others.