Don't go out. Let's Play INSIDE.

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Mindblast: Jun 28, 2006; Moving at the speed of death.

Thanks, Thread, for reminding me of this game. My first playthrough was great "fun" and I am looking forward to playing this again while vaguely remembering solutions.

So here's a thing I always wondered about the first sequence where you get chased by those men: are the people here... masked? Or are they faceless?

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Mindblast: Jun 28, 2006; Moving at the speed of death.

Shady Amish Terror posted:

Yeah, I don't know if we're going to get the full story spelled out, but looking at all the elements of the world so far and trying to fit them into some kind of coherent whole seems to suggest a very ugly, bleak dystopia. It's unclear if the boy, his captors, the drones, or the water nymphs are even human in the traditional sense, but given all the other trappings of farms and roads and trucks the implication seems to be that 'those happy few' in the masks are directing some sort of large facility founded on mind control and mad science. If that's the case, then the nymphs were probably human too; the cable could be related to their creation, though whether the nymph in question was feeling unusually compassionate or following some sort of programming isn't particularly clear either. We also still don't know for sure how the boy fits into everything, though the fact he started in a forest with windowed canisters like the controlled environment that the labs had is certainly suggestive.

I do wonder if there's supposed to be a sense of ongoing (or recently concluded) conflict. The pressure waves and the collapsed facilities don't seem...productive and orderly in the way a place run off of mind-controlled slave labor otherwise seems like it should.

One of the things I always wondered is about that early worker drone segment. You march along, pretending to be a drone, and while it makes sense that there are guards and guard dogs, search lights etc you also see regular people on the sideline. It almost looks like a family watching. Are they shopping for slave labor? Trying to spot a lost relative?

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 08:23

Mindblast: Jun 28, 2006; Moving at the speed of death.

Drones are so weird. Even the detached limbs seem to move on their own.

Xander77 posted:

Exactly why I stopped playing.

I dunno sounds like an incentive to keep going to me!

Mindblast fucked around with this message at 12:19 on May 3, 2017

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