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Just started playing unbeatable recently! It's definitely an interesting one. It's taking me a minute to really get what it's going for; there's stuff about it that I'm not really used to. I kinda like it though.

The giant action scenes aren't hitting for me as much as I hoped. I'm the sort of person who rewinds action scenes in cartoons to really take in the full flow of each action, and you can't really do that here. But overall it's kinda challenging how I think about and play games. It encourages you to play a lot more directly than I'm used to. There's less player choice involved and you're mostly along for the experience. Hesitation breaks the pacing.

There's not a ton of hidden secrets and dialogue around either, which is kind of refreshing. It's a game that pushes you to keep moving forward to get the full experience instead of painstakingly scouring the map to see if you missed anything. I usually like open areas, but they kinda stress me out because I feel the need to find everything before moving on, so this is kinda freeing.

And the narration is fascinating too. I love the ways the "dialogue choices" are used to say something about what you're doing rather than really giving you a choice. The whole experience is really curated.

It's less gameplay-focused than I expected, especially after playing [white label] forever ago, and the more visual novel-ish approach is taking getting used to. But I'm enjoying it so far.

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I finished Forbidden West a little while ago, and “Faro´s Tomb” where you investigate Ted`s private bunker is one of the most memorable main quests in the game. Inside the bunker you learn how Ted`s mental state fractured further and further, but I also like that this process follows some of the things, that were established in the first game about Ted. While listening to records in the bunker you discover, that Ted had a doctor implant devices into the the other bunker residents. This meant that if they would repel or cross Ted, he could easily kill them. Ted discusses this in one of the audio logs and says, that the rationale behind this decision was to have sense of control, because mixing a human element into things can make things unpredictable. 

This is a monstrous act but in a unsettling way, it follows a certain logic that a person like Ted would certainly adopt. The cause for the extinction of life on Earth was the collapse of the biosphere, as the Faro military robots devoured all biomass. However this could have been avoided, if Faro scientist had a backdoor to shut them down, however Ted insisted that they should not build this. This mistake haunts Ted and it is seen well in the Zero Dawn research facility. While the AI GAIA is being constructed, Ted insists Elisabeth, that some form of backdoor or kill switch must be integrated, thus leading to the master override being constructed. So here I think Ted is being plagued by the Faro swarm mistake. 

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