Originally posted by James Harvey
It was good up until I don't know, halfway through. And then the game just falls apart. The structure just goes to ****, certain puzzles/locations are uncompleteable/inaccessable until you've triggered these random plot points you had no way of knowing about which are tucked away in some obscure corner of the game. There are incredibly lame monsters thrown randomly in in the later sections of the game, as if the programmers wanted an excuse to show off the Game Over screen. And the way you defeat them is RETARDED...
To cap it all, one of the two main characters just disappears near the end, and doesn't come back!
Basically the main character, Foster, has a robot buddy called Joey, a surly little droid with a sardonic wit who has been his friend since he was a child. He is actually a very funny and likeable character, and is unique in the way his personality is stored on a circuit board, which can be inserted into a new robot body once the old one breaks down. Now in the last 1/8th of the game, the designers decided that Joey's personality would change along with his robot shell!
They don't explain why, it just happens. So you upload his character into a naked synthetic humanoid body, it comes to life and says 'Hello sir!' and starts talking like a gay butler. Foster says 'Hmm, you need a new name, I'll call you Ken!' and that's it. No more Joey. This is like having Louise suddenly disappear in the last ten minutes of 'Thelma and Louise', and replacing her with a character called 'Dave' played by Tony Slattery. And then having none of characters make reference to this fact. Or ever wonder where Louise has gone.
It's a shame, because some of the game is great. Like, the first couple of rooms. The bit that's in the demo I played when I was 11. The next half of the game is taken up by the slow realisation that it isn't as good as you thought it was... and then in the final half you realise that it is in actual fact, when taken as a whole, ass.
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