So you take your testosterone-filled avatar out into the world (or worlds, plural – more on that later) and start smacking things with swords, axes, maces, your fists and whatever else comes to hand in the moment. You handle Jack – an angry, single-minded strongman straight out the 00’s roster of edgy video game men – as he searches for Chaos. It’s like scoffing a high-calorie, low-nutrition snack – it feels good, but you know it’s bad for your health. When it comes to how Stranger of Paradise feels in your hand, you can’t complain.
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And it was in Gears of War 2, so we were totally blindsided.I guess it helps that Team Ninja knows how to make a good action game. Dom's voice actor, Carlos Ferro, actually stepped into the mo-cap suit for the first time to record this scene, helping to make this moment of despair even more human. Epic nailed the moment when Dom finally finds Maria, a tortured, mindless husk of her former vibrant self, and we were bawling like we just got dumped the night before Spring Formal. Say whatever you want - it doesn't matter. Say that it's a dumb game with terrible writing. For the entire first game (and part of the second), Dom searches for information about Maria, getting glimmers of hope from time to time as he shows her picture to other survivors. He's complicated, with motives beyond "kill all thems thar Locusts and maybe find out about my daddy." See, Dom is looking for his wife, Maria, who went missing once the Imulsion (sic) hit the fan during Emergence Day. His partner Dominic Santiago, on the other hand, is a lot easier to care about. Marcus Fenix isn't all that interesting of a main character. It’s not an easy decision to make, and both endings will leave you with waterfalls where your tear-ducts should be (or at least a huge lump in your throat). And at the end, you have to choose between staying in Silence with your brother - but dying in the real world - or killing the Queen of Silence to return to your bombed town, aware that you might wake up next to your dead brother. As you go on you have to choose between friends, leaving some behind, and even seeing your dependable pet caterpillar sacrifice himself to save you. So imagine the gradual sense of dread you feel as you realise that the little sister looks identical to the Queen of Silence. Quick mention, here: in the previous game if you were the ruler of Silence, it meant you were near death in the real world. The beginning is as heart-wrenching as it gets, and it sure as hell doesn’t help that you catch a glimpse of the child you wouldn’t let into your shelter in this alternate dimension.
Hearing the crash of one hitting the ceiling, and waking up in the mysterious world of Silence. Seeing a little hand press against the glass from outside as the bombs fall.
Choosing between your brother or living in Silence: The Whispered World 2Ī brother and sister cowering in a bomb shelter. He's a grief-stricken kid who made a terrible choice, and now he has to see it through to the end. Eventually your open-world search-and-destroy instincts falter and you realize Wander is not the good guy, or even a justified anti-hero. They're sleeping, as they have for millennia. They aren't rampaging around cities or killing people. They're literally just chilling, minding their own business, and then your punk kid climbs up their back and stabs them in the head until they die. The only way said god will do it is if Wander kills 16 colossi.Īfter a little while, killing these mysterious titans starts to get to you.
Plot details take form slowly throughout the course of the game, revealing that a young man named Wander is working with a nefarious deity to restore his lover's life. In Shadow of the Colossus, things aren't so clear. You're killing the bad guys who are trying to take over the world, or you're trying to get revenge, or you're trying to save someone. Character motivation is usually pretty cut-and-dry.
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