7/30/2023 0 Comments Technobabylon pc game review![]() Can’t get past an electronically locked door for example? Phone the Central operating system and get them to hack it open - it controls everything, after all. Technobabylon mostly upholds this tradition, and if it strays than at least it’s entertaining. ![]() No “combine the rubber skin with the open manhole to create a trampoline” in Gemini Rue, no sir. One thing that WadjetEye and all the games under their publishing label seem to be good at are intelligent, sensible puzzles. They all have interesting parts to play and a lot of surprises about their past for the player to find out. Finally Latha “Mandala” Sesame is a Trance addict being forced to properly confront the real world for the first time as her own grubby world crashes down around her. Max Lao is younger and cooler, worried for her partner, and is a bit naive in the ways of corruption. Charlie Regis is a bit of a luddite and isn’t over the death of his wife. It’s a shame you can’t change between them at will and have them affect each other Day of the Tentacle-style, but it works better narratively this way as it allows for those aforementioned twists to pop up convincingly. There are several playable characters throughout the game that you change between depending on the story, and it always makes things more interesting. It’s the characters though that sell the story. It’s funny that Japan’s the only country that’s been left alone, though. I think Technocrat went to town a little too much on the world map, but they sell their weird future well. It’s important to make this believable, and the idea of a VR internet that people get addicted to, an AI government, printable clothing etc all feel possible to me. ![]() What works even better is the future world Technocrat have created. I was certainly gripped from beginning to end. Only a confident storyteller can pull this all off well and have it succeed, so I guess Technocrat are pretty damn confident. It’s clever, it’s mature, it’s full of neat twists and turns that I didn’t see coming, and it really throws them at you so there’s a twist in the story every chapter. The CEL police force’s Charlie Regis and Max Lao are on the case, but things are about to spiral out of control in ways that’ll tear the future apart. The internet has evolved into the virtual cyberspace called Trance, an AI called Central runs the city of Newton, and a terrorist called the Mindjacker is killing people and blowing up buildings. Technocrat’s last game was of course the unfortunately titled Nancy the Happy Hooker and the Perfidious Petrol Station, so let’s hope their new game gets them enough street-cred to stop people mentioning that. Technobabylon, published by WadjetEye and developed by Technocrat Games, is therefore an adventure I was looking forward to. The Blackwell series are some of the best adventures around but their published original titles are always intelligent and highly playable. If there’s one company as an adventure game fan you shouldn’t underestimate, it’s WadjetEye.
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