You’ll be on the hunt for an ID card to kick start the FTL-drive, which brings me to another comparison with a rogue-like. As a rogue-lite, you play as a rotating cast of prisoners in a space-age prison. You play as Dave, Bernard, Clive, Patty, Betty, and Sybil.
However, after a while, it does become a little dry once you’ve seen the same dark corridor outside the airlocks several times over. It is a little disorienting to the senses at times. This is balanced, of course, with comedically unfamiliar cockney accents swearing at you while bright bullets fly towards you. In some way the clear thick lines, dark colors, and desolate spaceship pull out how dark the game is. It has a truly defining, dark sci-fi aesthetic that is polarizing to the eye. Void Bastards is a rogue-lite first-person-shooter, feeling similar to High Hell and Strafe, with a clear finger pointing back to first-person sci-fi shooters.Ī beautifully messy comic book style is one of the most appealing things you’ll first notice, as it’s not often adopted by many games. Though, the last time I spoke about Australians and swearing, I admitted the thousands of deaths in H.M.P Slade Let’s not do that again.
This time it is Void Bastards, something I’ll have fun talking about on video with YouTube’s mess about swearing.
VOID BASTARDS ART MODS
The last time it was Skyrim for the Switch and Skyrim for the Xbox One with lots of mods ruining the game. More than one ending with each a sort of futility theme would be awesome actually.This will be the second time I’m reviewing something that Taylor already has. It's all very 2000 AD, which is incredibly intentional with a passing glance at the comic art style. The entire game world extrapolates how the galaxy would look if the latter-day bureaucratic hellscape that is the Western neoliberal business world were extended from its confinement on Earth to the stars - and how its banality persists even in the face of catastrophic bio-organic mutation.
Originally posted by Typhaeon:While I agree that there should be ways to circumvent it, the bog-standard ending is thematically appropriate. We could die in any number of Quixotic ways, or achieve any number of fleeting Pyrrhic victories in this setting.Ī genuinely happy ending, however, seems to contravene this entire universe. We could burn up in a final, suicidal blaze of mutually assured destruction in some futile attempt at assaulting a trivial backwater garrison.
We could escape the nebula, only to find that the entire universe is overpopulated with idiot pricks in non-mutated form that would turn on our characters like the witless audience members in Plato's Cave do to their returned escapee. The base game does a great job establishing the desolate inhumanity of its setting, but I'd like to see an expansion where we as players could take a path of even greater resistance & break out of our miserable lot, either by joining with the pirate faction or discovering a powerful mutagen in the nebula's deepest core to somehow corrupt the AI taskmaster itself. Even if it ended in futility, like the America storyline in Judge Dredd, there should be a way/ways for these hapless freeze-dried prisoners to try to shirk, to challenge the system. Having said that, the game world still feels unnecessarily railroaded & limited. The entire game world extrapolates how the galaxy would look if the latter-day bureaucratic hellscape that is the Western neoliberal business world were extended from its confinement on Earth to the stars - and how its automated banality persists even in the face of catastrophic bio-organic mutation. While I agree that there should be ways to circumvent it, the bog-standard ending is thematically appropriate.
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