The rich stay rich occasionally looking down their noses to be disgusted at the poor who are little more than a disease ridden inconvenience. You have to team up with a the resistance to uncover a fiendish plot that keeps the general populace subjugated. Post apocalyptic world governed by a dictator who’s reminiscent of Darth Vader. The overall narrative is nothing really new or inventive. I’m a huge fan of giving people an inside track on the thought process in a creative venture and would like to see this implemented in more games. This is more for a second play-though of the game as it contains spoilers. You have the option to have some great commentary from the developers as you play along. This means you are stuck at 1280×800, it’s nothing game breaking it just means everything is very pixelated and might take you a moment to get used to. The options in this game are bare minimum and for some reason there’s no way to change the resolution. This leads you on an adventure of intrigue and revelation of the cities darkest secrets. Having contracted this virulent plague Amy Weller is tasked to bring a reactor back online for the Ministry of Energy. To get a ticket, people with nothing left to lose risk it all doing dangerous jobs for the Aristocracy that no one else will do. There is a vaccine but it’s in short supply to those that live in the slums so a lottery has been set up. Much of the world is now quarantined off due to a terminal disease called ‘green lung’ that is infecting the populace. He rules with an iron fist over a land that’s still suffering the after-effects of the apocalypse. An aristocracy was formed by Tiberius, a guy who wears a gas mask that resembles the classic Bourgeoisie porcelain face make-up. In a dystopian future, you’ve probably seen a million times by now, the bombs fell and the remnants of humanity struggles to regain some semblance of society. With this clearly in mind the clever people over at Wadjet Eye Studios created the retro style point and click adventure, Shardlight. Even after they’ve evolved to become something more refined, we still pine for that unadulterated experience that we first had. I think we all have genres of video-games that stay with us as fond memories for Years.
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