Mister_Bubbles
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Thanks guys, yeah it was the
'Slug Gun' - found it in a toolbox in the room you start the area in. I then remembered I had actually gone through that box the first time I started the level, but then got shot by the robot. When I reloaded, the game did its habitual annoying trick of having an unskippable cutscene play out right before an instadeath moment, so I went and got a drink while that did its thing, then in my mind I had already cleared that room so I just went on with the rest of the level.
Just completed the game now, I have to say some of those end game environments were stunning. The plot kinda fell apart though; I couldn't for the life of me figure out the reasoning behind any of the characters' actions.
Why doesn't John put himself in the second escape pod?
Why is The'ah suddenly evil? She explains that Cayne had gotten her husband killed so she was going to expose their shady business - alright, that's a motivation for something... but there was no discernible reason for her to suddenly be a villain. After all that time on the ship, the only thing that would suffice would be to cart off John's wife? It would have made more sense for that character to be the one you read about in the logs in the experimentation labs who was already selling Cayne secrets and was also a complete asshole.
What was the final stinger supposed to be? John didn't notice when he was looking in the pod that his wife was no longer human? Bit of an oversight... And I thought the whole deal was that these creatures were new entities, not mutated humans. Or was she just dead?
Nothing about Manan's actions make any logical sense, but I guess he was just a stereotypical evil dude, so fair play to him. Usual vague 'I will be the ruler of a new superior race, fuck all y'all!' stuff.
Why is The'ah suddenly evil? She explains that Cayne had gotten her husband killed so she was going to expose their shady business - alright, that's a motivation for something... but there was no discernible reason for her to suddenly be a villain. After all that time on the ship, the only thing that would suffice would be to cart off John's wife? It would have made more sense for that character to be the one you read about in the logs in the experimentation labs who was already selling Cayne secrets and was also a complete asshole.
What was the final stinger supposed to be? John didn't notice when he was looking in the pod that his wife was no longer human? Bit of an oversight... And I thought the whole deal was that these creatures were new entities, not mutated humans. Or was she just dead?
Nothing about Manan's actions make any logical sense, but I guess he was just a stereotypical evil dude, so fair play to him. Usual vague 'I will be the ruler of a new superior race, fuck all y'all!' stuff.
I'll have a read through the spoiler bars in the thread and see if I missed some stuff that might answer any of my questions. Overall I enjoyed it though, and it's a fantastic release for such a small team. Managing to create a genuinely atmospheric and at times actually scary isometric game is a real achievement. Sound design was also top notch.
Edit: The writing was decent, on the whole, but one thing that kept throwing me out of the experience that I wanted to mention was the continual tonal dissonance between descriptive texts and in the logs, like the game can't decide whether it wants to be serious and create an atmosphere or make sarcastic quips all the time. I noticed it a lot throughout the game, but one that really stood out to me is (endgame)
in the room with the three pregnant women. After cutting the life support, which is a really poignant scene, one of the womens' descriptors is something like 'Her chest no longer rises and falls, her suffering is finally at an end' and then literally the woman next to her's descriptor is like 'Her face is frozen in death, but her expression could be a bit more grateful'. I literally said out loud 'What the hell is that?' Way to ruin a good moment.
