Posted on: March 10, 2017
Wolfjagger
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 1
30 synonyms for strange
Amazing. Yes, you have to read A LOT. Yes, the combat is not technical enough to be interesting on its own merit. Yes, character customization (visual, at the very least) is not strong. The world is worth it. You're on earth, a billion years in the future. The very sand you walk on is made of little bits of technology. Unimaginable intelligences manipulate bizarre societies to acheive incomprehensible goals. Reality-warping psychics war with inscrutible mind parasites. It's bonkers. I played the numenera tabletop rpg as well, and this perfectly captures the feel of the setting. Your quest is epic in every sense of the word, yet you know it's just one story among innumerable others of equal complexity. You get glimpses of wonderful new ideas in the majority of your interactions with the world (nearly every item is unique and has at least a paragraph of backstory to place it in the world). I was having trouble imagining a world with a doomsday machine around every corner, commonplace time travel, and true AI. Somehow, it just WORKS. The game is great at making you ask "what would that be like?" and "how does that work?". How would you function if you were one among an infinite number of alternate versions of yourself, and you could communicate with these versions? It's a human GPU! What would you do with the energy of a star? Sometimes, I just stopped and thought about the possibilities. It's not going to be for everyone. If you're willing to read a dense, weird, compelling, choose-your-own-adventure sci-fi, this is for you. What does one life matter?
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