#the uncertain

I've realized some time ago that puzzle game with robots is a genre that has surprisingly a lot of examples.

Sometimes I really want to read a short summary of what to expect from a game… and thankfully people can also submit their summaries of games they played and help me (and others) find games that cater to their interests!

submitted by @lairofsentinel

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what to expect from THE UNCERTAIN (2) - LIGHT AT THE END

“Continuation” (not really) of the first game: The Uncertain - Last Quiet Day. In fact, it’s not a continuation but a different point of view of the same story: now you control a human girl called Emily.

It is still a very obvious point & click game. Obvious in the sense that it explains outloud what you have to do or find, and feels like you are a dumb person who needs to be commanded because you are unable to follow the extremely simply logic of this game.. 

Now you control a human girl called Emily, a good aspect is that, at least, she walks faster than the robot in the previous episode. 

The relationship between the human survivors is very awkwardly written. It feels like a very cheap hollywood movie, with little stuff making some sense: for example, among the survivors there is a guy who has all the skills to be the leader of the group, yet, they decide that the best one suited for being a leader is a young woman in her early 20, with zero experience in survival skills, logistics, or… basically anything. 

It’s fully voiced. 

The humans don’t blink, so the whole scenes are very strange and weird.

Very short game: it lasts around 4 hours. 

It finishes at the same point where the first game did it, the only difference is that, in this game, you have been following the humans’ point of view

 ——- Plot? ——-

In this game you belong to a group of humans that live in a hideout and go to the surface to look for food or medicines left in the abandoned stores. There is an intention to show how tense their relationship is due to the lack of comfort, meds, and food. Many of them have very irritable behaviour, but in general it’s done in a terrible way. The whole plot of this game is to try to connect with other groups of survivors, to understand what’s happening with the robots. Unlike the Robots’ point of view, the humans don’t know that there is a discourse going on explaining that the humans have been extinguished. Humans only know, from their perspective, that the “day of the incident” armies of robots took humans in vehicles and made them disappear forever. In this task of trying to get contact with other survivor groups, they end up contacting the rebel robots from the first game, who inform the humans that they mean no harm and that they created a sanctuary away from the city, waiting for them.

——- Gameplay? ——- 

You control Emily, a university student before the robots took control over humanity. 

——- Characters? ——- 

The protagonist you play with: Emily, plus her group of humans made of an old black man; a mature man with a prosthetic leg, an old woman who always is cooking for the group, a young man with asthma, a young woman with a baby, and a very smart and fit young man who gives hints of having been part of the military before the world went to hell.

 ——- LGBT? ——-

None

——- Sadness level? ——- 

None. The writing is so clumsy and cliche and over-reacted that even if the situations they are in should cause sadness, the execution of the story makes it more cringey than sad. 

——- Happy ending? Deaths? ——-

So overunder thoughts on what we know so far:

(it’s been blogged and linked before, but here is MARO’s article for context)

Theme of set; Camalot meets Grimm: AWESOME. Loving all the art related to the concept. Best part so far. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us lore wise.

Boarderless PW cards: It’s not at a constant, but they will be in main booster packs, so that’s cool.

Brawl precons: I have no clue how to feel abou this. Though some have pointed out that the included 7 unique cards might either be PW deck levels of underwhelming (and thus putting them squarely at a level of interest that mostly involves folks like me that love collecting precons in general) or potentially format warping cards. Play test will hopefully keep the 4 announced decks between those two extremes and all will be well... hopefully.

Collector Boosters: I’m severely mixed. On the one hand, with as much goodies in the packs as there will be, I’m exited... But it seems there might be some severe duds (apparently going to potentially include PW deck rares? If it’s just PW, then maybe not so bad, but if it includes those rares that search for specific walkers? ick, no thank you, that would be worse then cracking a Dubious Challange in KLD or a Tree of Redemption in Masters 25). That aside, the limited printing and cost of 20-25 bucks will be a definite issue. Will there be a booster box of them avalible for purchase? and if so, how fucking much is that thing going to be? O.o Like, my friends know I love grabbing a booster box and cracking the crap out of it on stream, chatting and having fun... and i’ve been at my limit about that stuff, with Modern Horizons being that limit at this point. I can’t go back to things like the old master sets of 250+ booster boxes... just... I can’t.

Rowan as the ‘face’ pw for the set: Love it. Love her. Adore her new look.

The Uncertain: Episode 2 - Light At The End

Steam Page

Kickstarter Page

The Uncertain: VR Experience

Key art http://store.steampowered.com/app/602140/