Their attempts to rebuild the ship called ‘Unniic’ hits a snag when a terrifying laser-wielding monosyllabic monolith of a robot cuts its way in and snatches the ship’s power core. He’s accompanied, as he always will be, by Crispin, a floating sarcastic head. On the roof of the Unniic Horatio watches the moon through a telescope. I’ve no idea if there’ll be multiple player characters like in other Wadjet Eye adventures, but I spent my time playing the game’s demo solely as Horatio, a robot who’s made it his purpose to fix the broken spaceship he calls home. Mankind has passed into myth, and his robot creations now own the barren, junk-filled dustbowl called the Earth.
“But wait”, I hear you cry, “the other three might be great, but how do you know Primordia will be too?” Simple: I’ve played it for a few hours, and I love it already. All Wadjet Eye, all engaging, quality adventures. In a year that sees such travesties as Yesterday and Deponia inflict themselves on the genre, it’s a relief to know that we still have Gemini Rue, The Blackwell Deception, Resonance and this December’s Primordia to count on. And maybe that is especially so given that time would pass differently for robots depending on their processor speeds and reboots and the like.Over the last few years, Wadjet Eye Games have distinguished themselves as makers of well-written and excellently-designed adventure games. I mean, "long dead religion" that was the majority faith and official ideology something like 17 years earlier? But I guess in totalitarian regimes, it's possible to rewrite history relevatively quickly. Incidentally, this whole mess makes me think of the disaster the Star Wars prequels wreaked on the chronology of the original trilogy. There's a nice thread about this on GOG: So if I had to guess, I'd say probably something like 20 years have passed since humans were wiped out, though I think it's fair to assume that humanity had been moribund for a long time prior to that final push.Īlso, there's a further wrinkle that since (1) EFL was kicked out of Metropol sometime after MetroMind took over and (2) met Horatio's first version and (3) describes that version as being in "wroth confusion" (i.e., suggesting he was not yet at the stage of rebuilding the UNNIIC), we know that the first Horatio upgrade/reset happened some time into MetroMind's reign. But no one talks like she's been in charge for ages they make it sound like she's been in charge for a while and that it's been a pretty rapid decline. That means whatever "ges have passed since legendary Man walked the planet" (as the non-canonical sales material states) have all pased with MetroMind in charge of Metropol. While 187 (and Primer, in a canonical poem published on the game's website) suggest that it was an arduous journey for the infantry robots to make, we know that a human can walk around the entire planet in 4.5 years (see Dave Kunst), so presumably the march to Metropol took at most a couple years (and even that seems absurd). Since we know the courthouse was sealed by the time the Surly Company survivors arrived, and we know that the courthouse was sealed after Arbiter's death (Clarity is incredulous that he would stop hearing cases, so it must've been after she left), that means that the duration of the Robot Council's rule is no longer than the amount of time it took for Surly Company to walk from Urbani to Metropol.
Spoilers follow, so you may want to wait until after you've beaten the game. For what it's worth, I don't think Primordia is set in the future of our world, but rather in a different world that happens to share some similarities with ours.Įven on its own chronology, though, Primordia is a little questionable. As xylynx notes, you misheard the line (or it was unclear): the time is how much longer Goliath's power core can stay on line, not how long it as already been running.
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