9/13/2023 0 Comments Shardlight calligraphy![]() ![]() Before he died, he assisted Amy, and in return, asked her to fulfil a task. She stumbles across the previous person that is sent to do the lottery job that person had an accident, and is dying. She has Green Lung, and intends to somehow gain some vaccine through the lottery jobs. She is a part-time scavenger, her main vocation being that of a mechanic. It is through one of these lottery jobs that the player is introduced to the protagonist, Amy Wellard. Of course, frequent supplies are the privilege of the wealthy everyone else has to work dangerous jobs to even have a chance at getting any. There is a vaccine that can stave off its worst effects, but it is temporary. Specifically, the Green Lung is a plague that has been around for a while, likely a consequence of the aforementioned wars. However, there is an additional plot element: a plague. This dystopia would have been bad enough – and quite typical in post-apocalyptic stories. Backing the Aristocracy is soldiery with Imperial-era get-up and breach-loaded rifles with bayonets as silly as they look, these are stone-cold killers. They are practically despots who make decisions for everyone, whether they like it or not. Furthermore, above everyone else, there are the “Aristocracy”. The supposedly wealthy of course get the lion’s share of the still-dwindling resources. Although it has only been a few decades, society in that city has changed into a dystopia with a clear class divide, with the poor having little to no resources scavenging is a major economic activity. The events in the game take place in the ruins of some non-descript Western English-speaking country, specifically in one of that hemisphere’s ruined cities. What is left is barely able to support the survivors and the next generation. Some time after the turn of the century, wars for scarce resources erupted, and – of course – said resources were destroyed together with the world that was. Half a decade later since the release of this game, this intro would have hit too close to home.Īs mentioned already, Shardlight takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Still, Shardlight is the personal project of affiliates-turn-employees at Wadjet Eye if anything, it is noteworthy for Wadjet Eye’s leadership – namely Dave Gilbert – being willing to put resources into developing something that employees came up with. Thus, Shardlight came out during a time when there is questionable demand for games with such themes. Some of them were even high-profile disappointments, namely the most recent Fallout titles. The demise of civilization and having to rebuild everything from scratch made for both storytelling fodder and a convenient excuse for extensive progression systems.Īt the time of Shardlight, some of the appeal has waned there had been plenty of such games with these settings. Post-apocalyptic stories were quite popular in video games for a while. By Gelugon_baat | Review Date: May 21, 2021 ![]()
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