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Iron Gaia: Virus Review
Iron Gaia: Virus Review
Otoko, Carter does have a line somewhere in there about how his memory is coming back, evidently enough that he remembers old rock lyrics.
It's in the future, so maybe Trent Reznor is their version of Shakespeare?
It's in the future, so maybe Trent Reznor is their version of Shakespeare?
Iron Gaia: Virus Review
Max, I agree pretty much completely with that stuff about the Amory Wars, YOTBR, and Umbrella Academy. As for Gerard Way, I'm assuming that's f*g in the channer sense of the word, since he's straight. And yeah, he does a much better job with his comic than Claudio, who I wish had just hired Brian K Vaughn.
With regards to reviews, I think it's kind of important to have a spectrum of them. Silviera did not enjoy this game, but it wasn't really his cup of tea. When I'm considering buying a game, I read one positive review and one negative review to try and get a more balanced idea of whether I, personally would like it. Neither one is objectively right. They just reflect an experience.
Incidentally, I meant to say Slade where I said Carter in the above post. Editing that in now.
As for the retcon, I never trusted the asteroid explanation for Gaia's madness, since the timeline was already wonky, and it's known that she was screwing with people's memories. I can certainly believe that Cross thinks he was the prime mover for Gaia's madness, but the personal reality of anyone who has ever been on board that station is suspect.
Especially people who think they got close to the Gaia.
With regards to reviews, I think it's kind of important to have a spectrum of them. Silviera did not enjoy this game, but it wasn't really his cup of tea. When I'm considering buying a game, I read one positive review and one negative review to try and get a more balanced idea of whether I, personally would like it. Neither one is objectively right. They just reflect an experience.
Incidentally, I meant to say Slade where I said Carter in the above post. Editing that in now.
As for the retcon, I never trusted the asteroid explanation for Gaia's madness, since the timeline was already wonky, and it's known that she was screwing with people's memories. I can certainly believe that Cross thinks he was the prime mover for Gaia's madness, but the personal reality of anyone who has ever been on board that station is suspect.
Especially people who think they got close to the Gaia.
Iron Gaia: Virus Review
Fallen-Griever, just looking for clarification here. Do you mean 'vindication' as in this supports your review, or 'vindication' as in I have switched over to the 'correct' reviewing style?
Max, those stars are an indication of how much I enjoyed the game and how much I would recommend it to other people. I typically scale the nitpickiness of my critique up or down based on how polished a project is. This is to avoid, say, getting really bent out of shape over a minigame if there's a greater problem with combat, or something like that.
I had to go all the way to the point of academic analysis to find issues with this game, so that should be a pretty strong indication that this is a fun thing to play.
And now, to engage with the very long response:
Max, those stars are an indication of how much I enjoyed the game and how much I would recommend it to other people. I typically scale the nitpickiness of my critique up or down based on how polished a project is. This is to avoid, say, getting really bent out of shape over a minigame if there's a greater problem with combat, or something like that.
I had to go all the way to the point of academic analysis to find issues with this game, so that should be a pretty strong indication that this is a fun thing to play.
And now, to engage with the very long response:
-Anticlimaxes can be pretty interesting, so most of the frustration there comes from the absent sequel.
-I understood that Cross' death was a way to make the Vision into a badass, but he still could've had a showdown with Slade. In many ways, he would've been an even stronger character for it. The fact that he could go toe to toe with a fully upgraded angel, using bioengineered minions or the Gaia's defense systems or experimental weapons tech or whatever, would really build him up in the player's eyes. Having the Vision crush him afterwards would not only build her up even more, but would also be a little sad. At the end of the day, it's kinda hard not to sympathize with Cross. He may be a terrible person, but he absolutely cares about things, and he spends the whole game fighting a deck that's been stacked against him.
-I don't know that I'd necessarily say either your story or coheed and cambria's trumps the other. They're different mediums, and I choose not to consider the comic books as canon, or any of the parts of YOTBR that Claudio was allowed to write.
-The deliberate mismanagement of sentence structure in his songs I actually find pretty cool, because it puts you off balance for a moment and forces you to give what he's saying a little more consideration and meaning. It definitely wouldn't work in prose (except if you're Hal Duncan,) but it's an interesting extra bit to a song.
-The quoting in Iron Gaia prime, strangely, felt more apt. It was in-universe quoting, from songs that they characters had heard, so it didn't stand out as much to me. Other people may disagree on this one.
-I understood that Cross' death was a way to make the Vision into a badass, but he still could've had a showdown with Slade. In many ways, he would've been an even stronger character for it. The fact that he could go toe to toe with a fully upgraded angel, using bioengineered minions or the Gaia's defense systems or experimental weapons tech or whatever, would really build him up in the player's eyes. Having the Vision crush him afterwards would not only build her up even more, but would also be a little sad. At the end of the day, it's kinda hard not to sympathize with Cross. He may be a terrible person, but he absolutely cares about things, and he spends the whole game fighting a deck that's been stacked against him.
-I don't know that I'd necessarily say either your story or coheed and cambria's trumps the other. They're different mediums, and I choose not to consider the comic books as canon, or any of the parts of YOTBR that Claudio was allowed to write.
-The deliberate mismanagement of sentence structure in his songs I actually find pretty cool, because it puts you off balance for a moment and forces you to give what he's saying a little more consideration and meaning. It definitely wouldn't work in prose (except if you're Hal Duncan,) but it's an interesting extra bit to a song.
-The quoting in Iron Gaia prime, strangely, felt more apt. It was in-universe quoting, from songs that they characters had heard, so it didn't stand out as much to me. Other people may disagree on this one.
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Iron Gaia Review
reedemer, I think you want the page for Iron Gaia: Virus, the gaideny thingy that follows Slade instead of Carter. It has the med lab puzzle where you have to vector a virus through several hosts to get an encoded combination for a door.
SPOILERS FOR A DIFFERENT GAME ON A DIFFERENT PAGE
SPOILERS FOR A DIFFERENT GAME ON A DIFFERENT PAGE
Everyone gets stuck on that one. Here's what you need to do:
-obtain virus
-inject virus into xel, cleaning the code slightly
-inject virus into reaper, which then attacks you
-hack the autodoc, diagnose yourself, realize you need some iridium
-backtrack to iridium chest, return to the autodoc and get a diagnosis and vaccine for the mutated chimera virus
-crunch the letters for the virus into a simple substitution cipher (i.e. A=1, B=2, etc.) There is literally nothing anywhere telling you to do this last step.
-arrive at the answer: either 3721237 or 4822248
-obtain virus
-inject virus into xel, cleaning the code slightly
-inject virus into reaper, which then attacks you
-hack the autodoc, diagnose yourself, realize you need some iridium
-backtrack to iridium chest, return to the autodoc and get a diagnosis and vaccine for the mutated chimera virus
-crunch the letters for the virus into a simple substitution cipher (i.e. A=1, B=2, etc.) There is literally nothing anywhere telling you to do this last step.
-arrive at the answer: either 3721237 or 4822248
Iron Gaia Review
I know exactly where you're talking about. Just keep using energy crystals and Slade's rage limit, interrupted by the occasional medipak. The Deltus fight took me a couple tries until I figured that out.
You do have a point, though. The pacing on the save spots was a little uneven, ala some of the more recent final fantasies.
You do have a point, though. The pacing on the save spots was a little uneven, ala some of the more recent final fantasies.
Lorelai, Queen
Looks good. You've got some typos already, though. :p
Darian Ragnall's bio has "inetions" instead of "intentions."
Darian Ragnall's bio has "inetions" instead of "intentions."
Iron Gaia Review
Huh, okay. The bundled save files were of the regular game, then. That makes sense.
Completely cracked out narrative analysis to follow:
And to think I ragged on people for liking Lost...
Completely cracked out narrative analysis to follow:
Also, this may just be my reading of canon, but I have this theory where they're all basically right. Because of the nature of the Iron Gaia entity and its impending godhood, reality is kind of bubbled around the inhabitants of the station. They can interact with each other, but they're not all seeing the same things at once.
To complicate things further, the IG already exists on multiple layers of reality and is trying to 'wake up' into another (the 'real world' where Backstage takes place.) The way it's doing this is through the dreamer, who by dint of being in a coma was able to brush his consciousness against another reality, where IG grabbed onto it.
To complicate things even further, I have a sneaking suspicion that the comet that hit Iron Gaia was the one that was threatening Earth, thereby fragmenting it and causing a more survivable apocalypse (which in turn leads to the events of ETG and Vermicide.) This means that Origin is very probably Earth, and that Iron Gaia completely greenstick fractured the laws of causality by traveling to the moment just after its departure.
I don't know if any of this theorizing has a basis in rationality, and obviously I sat and thought about this way too much, but I do like that it all tenuously connects.
To complicate things further, the IG already exists on multiple layers of reality and is trying to 'wake up' into another (the 'real world' where Backstage takes place.) The way it's doing this is through the dreamer, who by dint of being in a coma was able to brush his consciousness against another reality, where IG grabbed onto it.
To complicate things even further, I have a sneaking suspicion that the comet that hit Iron Gaia was the one that was threatening Earth, thereby fragmenting it and causing a more survivable apocalypse (which in turn leads to the events of ETG and Vermicide.) This means that Origin is very probably Earth, and that Iron Gaia completely greenstick fractured the laws of causality by traveling to the moment just after its departure.
I don't know if any of this theorizing has a basis in rationality, and obviously I sat and thought about this way too much, but I do like that it all tenuously connects.
And to think I ragged on people for liking Lost...
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