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Sovy Kurosei posted:The alien creator didn't really degrade like Brink either, though. Also Brink tried to start a mutiny within minutes of landing on the planet. The game does not, in my opinion, do a very good job at selling the idea that the life crystals are bad. The alien creator and Maggie's objections to it feel like they stem more from moral/spiritual grounds rather than any ethical or rational ones. What's the difference between being brought back to life by the life crystals and by being "found" in Spacetime Six? Brink reveals himself to be an rear end in a top hat pretty much right away. When he gets resurrected by the life crystal, and talks about feeling better than ever, it's pretty clear that he's become instantly addicted. Throughout the course of the game, he displays some stereotypical depictions of addicted druggie behavior up to and including getting desperately violent in an attempt to get his fix. Maybe he's not thinking in his right mind or acting like his usual self, but that's as easily explainable due to him being a junkie with nobody in a position to restrain him and keep him clean. He's suffering an incredibly rapid downward spiral in a hopeless situation where he has no access to apparent food or drinkable water, just drugs. It's not a big stretch. The inventor, on the other hand? Tremendous rear end in a top hat. He doesn't really go into why he thinks the life crystals are bad in any real specifics beyond an explanation that essentially amounts to a moral/spiritual excuse against resurrection. Ever wonder why the inventor was still around when literally every other member of their species is trapped in Spacetime Six? It seems kind of odd, that - the inventor designs a machine in order to access Spacetime Six and provide an ascension for his species, and without any testing or experimentation the entire species sans the creator decide to all jump in at once without testing it, with only the inventor himself staying behind? It doesn't hold up, especially since the inventor describes Spacetime Six in detail, which shouldn't be possible unless he's been there. But if he was there, how did he get out without help? The simplest explanations are either that he's a giant coward who never went and is making poo poo up or that he was the only one to escape and he's an arrogant fatalist prick who assumes that nobody else could ever get out, even with help from him or other species. He's proven incredibly wrong in a big way, too - literally seconds after Low walks in, the trapped aliens are like "yo, thanks for finally opening the door and showing where it is, now we can jet" meaning that the inventor has never tried to bring them back. And that's not even covering the return of Maggie or Brink at the end - here we have two resurrections, both performed without the physical bodies on hand. Again, what makes this okay when the life crystals were apparently unacceptable? We use addictive substances for medical purposes all the time (uh, painkillers?) because we can mitigate the risks and manage the drawbacks. What happened to the original bodies? Would it be possible to find Maggie and Brink's corpses down the cliff somewhere, and then resurrect them with life crystals? which ones are the "real" Maggie and Brink, in that case? The game doesn't really give a satisfying explanation for any of this. It doesn't even try. Leaving it up to the viewer's imagination works so long as the things you've already shown aren't internally inconsistent.
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