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The space the Endministrator is in looks to be on par with the Sea of Originium, where everything is stored like a literal pocket of biological data, as the Originium would have the knowledge of how Babel fell once Rhodes Island was recovered. It would have Patriot and the sounds of fighting. Hell, the tube head enemies look like the high ranking Ursus generals, just the design is more basic than equipped. Past that is what looks like gravestones and the place Priestess was seen in Chapter 15 albeit scaled smaller with the Epitaph basically reminiscent of her ode to waiting. But these aren't really gravestones. Some of them act like a marker of information, a storage unit, as some are glowing and some aren't. One of them is even for the Endministrator, which begs the question since they're alive, if they're not headstones what are they replicating in this place?

At the end of the scene we come across a titan made of Originium in the place where the base operation was to start, and a banshee sarkaz using what appeared to be the same arts as Logos to control it. The combat was fluid and snappy, dodging led to successful counters. Finally we manage to wrest power away from the boss only to find it's the end of the combat tutorial and we're "reawakening." Which comes with a cutscene of the AIC booting up to find ourselves in the next scene literally coming out of a chunk of Originium

So the basis of the Endministrator is wrapped up in how their body is tied exclusively to the mineral, as we know it's harnessed to evolve and grow but also store information from the infected. This is reflective in all of Endfield, the process of growth and design all within harnessing this Prometheus gift appropriately WHICH has the same response as Arknights had: The indigenous life on Talos II started to fight back against the assimilation. Ankhors, which spawn the Sarkaz/Sankta amalgamation, look to be the first iteration of Originium that erode and fade when the core is destroyed. There's a similarity in the start of the story where you're trying to navigate through your own shadow to relearn everything and everyone.

I find the base building part to be the most interesting. We have the Base Beta on Rhodes Island pre made for us but now we have to do the work in Endfield to let the operators and Endfielders continue their work. There's set points of interest, which, house these places accordingly. It's all too familiar with the other gacha entries having similar giant structures marking a place on the map, however the way you connect is a bit more refreshing to establish your mark on a place to ensure it keeps running

Four hours in and I'm already enjoying the pacing. We learn there's the Endfield division and a secondary backup division helping, the "Infected" group seems far more radical and destructive with a single leader (allegedly) behind it all. Given how deeply entrenched the use of Originium is, especially without a mention of infection as arts units are floating companions for Casters, I wouldn't be surprised if this is all occurring on another timeline that Priestess has wandered in. Time doesn't seem to be organic in Arknights, especially when Chapter 15 showed how Heirda could move with Priestess through various moments in time. Allowing Priestess to exist in any given moment if a body was placed at a point of origin (Rhodes Island)

This is simply a summary of my time with the game. I am happy with the designs as we're now 3d. If we complicate the model, the design is lost. The one thing is the level of detail comes from the material texture in the clothing, which changes according to the weather conditions. The Reconvener units are great, I love seeing familiar faces but I also love the new faces joining us. There was a lot of care with the modelling too as the appropriate fur and scales on units were seen to with care. Hell Feathers have even gotten an uplift.