For starters, the eXistenZ world is achingly dull. It seems to consist of a gas station, some roads through wilderness, a Chinese restaurant, a fish farm, a church, and a few dwellings. In eXistenZ , the implication is that everyone is supposed to be a PC, and I promise you a lot of irked gamers if they wind up as NPCs instead. I had to read this thing four times just to get a sense of the second half of the book. It feels cold.
New ports are sometimes a bit tight.
Wouldn't want to hurt you. I mean, they open right into your body. Don't be ludicrous. Maybe some good art could have helped this sad thing, but eXistenZ didn't get any. The effect is terribly claustrophobic.