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Story Description: This experiment in advanced A.E. simulations has been precision-crafted to provide you with the highest quality product possible, resulting in a superior entertainment experieeee(LOADING_ERROR x.000352 CONTACT A.I. DEPT. AT ONCE)
Story Arc ID: 148476
Author’s Global Chat Handle: @Clave Dark 5
Length: Long (3 missions)
Alignment: Neutral
Designer Notes: Errors can be funny! Did my best to keep it 1-54 leveled. 3 maps, last one pretty small. I found it soloable, this is no super-challenge mish.
[tags: SFMA, funny, story, HFMA; two bosses, no EBs or AVs]
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Filed under: Reviews, Custom Critters, Length: Long, Neutral
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Running on a low 40s DB/Fire brute. Diff 2: bosses is bosses. Engineer draws closer.
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Okay, looks like somebody didn’t finish coding some things and just left a bunch of placeholder crap in. Dummied out bosses, missing objective text…
Of course it’s all deliberate.
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Second mission, looks like I’ve been routed to some kind of test server?
The bugs’ descriptions are too common sensical. Needs more IT jargon. “This file is created by: when:”
…dude, Ted. No porn on the network drive. How many times do we have to say it?
(though can you make minions out of ‘em too? Having a dual blast/assault lieutenant is kind of a pain.)
What garbled text leaks through seems to indicate the server farm has various unique and bloodthirsty elements. And it’s gone rampant. Peachy.
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The cornball slogans are getting more ball-shaped and full of corn as time goes on.
Um… I’m not sure I WANT to fill out a pile of forms on a bloodstained ancient desk. Oh well, anything for a few cents of refund, right?
Gack. In modest numbers these elec blasts drain me dry, and that’s just one spawn.
Heh. I wouldn’t push it, complete clue. “Problem? WHAT problem? This burning building is completely natural!” seemed to be more the tenor of my interactions.
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Storyline - ***. No, I’m not marking down for humor. I’m marking down for “I just signed a blood contract, meddled with stuff I don’t understand, fought crazy manifestations of system files, and now it’s just OVER?” C’mon! I signed a document legally binding me to undertake a mission in compensation and the entry popup is I AM THE DREAD DAEMON ROBERTS AND I AM HERE FOR YOUR SOUL. Everybody was acting like the system had a mind of its own, so let’s SEE it!
Design - *****. But the crazy random stuff that occurs as a result of corrupted missions is suitably over the top.
Gameplay - ***. But getting hammered by twin blast lieutenants isn’t much fun, and neither is waiting around after every spawn in the last mission to recover from the severe, severe sapping elec blasts dish out. Ted’s porn folder needs minions, and the system bugs need some more enemies with non-sappy power sets for variety. Energy melee/assault, maybe?
Detail - ****. Not so much for the terrible spelling, because it was deliberate terrible spelling. But the “log files” need a more techie description on them, and the “affronted British gentleman” style of the accept text didn’t really work for me. Just make the accept text a quick objective summary of the mission goals, such as they are. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Overall - ****. A well-realized idea with some difficulty hangups whose main flaw is that it doesn’t go far enough.
Posted on June 5th, 2009 at 10:25 pm