![]() The game leaves you and Hyun-ae scrambling with a timer to try and fix the core. Analogue: A Hate Story – Mute talking about Hyun-aeĪt this point Christine Love showed off her sense of drama and storytelling by suddenly having the ship have issues with the core. Not only because of how cute and polite Hyun-ae had been, but because the story had treated her as a nearly helpless victim the entire time. I’d seen some of the other plot twists (although not many of them) coming, but this one just made my jaw drop. ![]() Then comes the huge shocker – although she’d been increasingly antagonistic about Hyuna, she tells you to ask Hyuna-ae why she killed everyone on the ship. So she has nearly the opposite reaction to each of records than Hyun-ae did. Mute was the ship’s security AI and she shares that society’s values. I thought it was neat how you go through all the records with both Hyun-ae and Mute. Then a point is reached where it appears there is nothing else to do. Analogue: A Hate Story – The Pale Bride’s Diaries Then you find out the AI and the girl are the same – or rather that she uploaded her memories into the AI. People have a lot less scientific knowledge and the society is also backwards compared to where the girl is from (which seems to share our values). The first bit of tragedy is that somehow things have degraded in the future. First you learn that The Pale Bride is a girl who had been put into cryogenic sleep in the hope that there would be a cure for her disease in the future. I love how the horror unfolds little by little and the final twist is gut wrenching. At first it just seems like a story of mundane fighting among nobles, especially nobles jealous of The Pale Bride who has become the Emperor’s consort because his first wife cannot give him a son. The ship contains a helpful AI, named Hyune-ae, who helps to comment on what you’re reading. The player connects to the ship’s Unix-like terminal and eventually launches a GUI to help them go through the ship’s records. Recently someone spotted it and the player is asked to go to the ship and retrieve any data they can from the ship’s records so that their distant relatives on Earth can find out what happened. A generation ship that was supposed to found some colonies was lost hundreds of years ago. The game also contains a conceit right at home with the science fiction short stories I listen to via Clarkesworld or Escape Pod. Analogue: A Hate Story – An External Connection Sure, it’s not the best way to tell all stories, but for a certain segment of stories that revolve around the reader learning about the world and the characters from a state of mystery, I think it works rather well. Clearly the traditional authors haven’t been spending much time with those creating video games because I think this game shows at least one way in which storytelling can evolve in the future. I’ve read a lot about people wondering about the future of fiction now that we have e-readers. The night after I started this game I spent nearly every waking moment of the night obsessed with this game. It’s now in contention for my Game of the Year. I’d heard a lot about the creator and the price was right for something I had no idea whether or not I’d like. I bought this game on a whim during a Valentine’s Day sale. If it turns out that I am where I think I am, this is going to be a very interesting game.Īnalogue: A Hate Story ( 4 hrs): SPOILERS BELOW! Analogue: A Hate Story – Intro Should be the most fun and maybe the first game to end. Civ 5 – Tiny Mesa Civ 3700BCĪppropriately, each of us has a civ with a powerful early game unit. After the pounding I’ve taken in the Lefties game, I was curious what would happen if the three of us faced each other without any AIs in the game. I started a new game that has just the three of us competing. Who wouldn’t want to join my awesome civ? Scouting for other civs and for city locations. I am doing early exploration of the terrain. I got the latest expansion pack for Christmas and Dave started a new game. Maybe because of my Great Wall? My borders continue to advance so quickly that my territory spans beyond the Great Wall. Civ 5 – Lefties 1902Ībout to pay back this city state for attacking me on behalf of Dido. Left a contingent behind to make sure the Celts don’t get cute. ![]() I will not stop until she has been wiped off the map. Dido tried to be opportunistic and attack me while I was at war with the Celts.
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