- 10164I pre-ordered this, as I have to see this strange game for myself.
- 10168OK, this is it. I am starting this controversial game, and I'm very excited. The environments look so amazing in the intro, I have trouble not just standing around and staring at waterfalls. And the vehicle and clothes designs are fascinating.
- 10169In the first mission, I delivered the dead body of the American president, my mother, to a disposal facility.
- 10172I did a few more normal missions. So far, this is very enjoyable in its own way.
- 10174In a tense walk through a BT-infested valley, I reached the Wind Farm.
- 10176Martin played the prologue and the cremation mission, and he got caught by BTs and chased over an oily mountainside by a huge Lovecraft-looking squid-whale monster.
- 10177We then returned to my save game, where I got access build power stations, charged a bike, and drove it all the way back to Capital Knot City. I then got access to blood grenades, which seems like the first weapon of real use against BTs. On my way to the port, I ran into real trouble and also got caught.
- 10196I finished chapter 2 and went to a cool new area. I got bionic legs now, and the ability to fast travel.
- 10200I went for an atomspheric walk in the Central Region, saw some awesome looking new environments, and discovered a few bases, that weren't open for business. It's too bad that they're not interactive when you find them randomly, it detracts from my interest in exploring.
- 10213I met some Porters, actual sentient humans in the world who didn't try to kill me. Amazing. :)
- 10214I got a Bola Gun! It's awesome, I took out an entire camp of MULEs and stole their truck. It's so great to have a truck.
- 10215The highways look surreal.
- 10216I got to the Weather Station and Bridges now has adorable delivery robots!
- 10217I shot some more MULEs and stole another truck and drove it from the farm.
- 10218More trucking.
- 10219My truck got hit by MULE spears on the highway, and it ran off the road. Pretty cool dynamic moment.
- 10220I accidentally cut the end of the previous video. I transported the weird time hourglass girl who seems to have a lot of trouble with speaking to her boyfriend. It's delightfully weird when you're transporting a human, a mummy on your back.
- 10221I got into a brutal fight with a MULE base and after punching out everyone, I took the opportunity to steal a new truck. I also got a grabby gun and the ability to customize my backpacks.
- 10222My sneaky stealth mission with the Sticky Gun turned into a messy brawl with the MULES again. It was a fun, chaotic affair with a lot of close calls.
- 10223Sometimes good game design ideas get ruined the player second-guessing the game. In a callback to several old Metal Gear games, a guy who was clearly a terrorist shows up in a Bridges outfit and gives you a 'gift' for Fragile, which is clearly a bomb. On inspection, it's called a bomb in the inventory, and it's blinking red. So what to do?
- I would like to inform Bridges, but that is not possible.
- I try to recycle the bomb, hoping that would destroy it. Not possible
- I then go to my destination, which triggers an immediate and very inelegant game over screen (the first one I encountered in the game).
- I then try leaving the bomb on the ground and walking away. Game over.
- 10249I did a frustrating war boss fight with Unger. That sequence felt a bit tacked on.
- 10250I finally met Mama and heard her crazy story. She was pregnant and stuck in rubble after a terrorist attack, surviving by drinking rainwater, and gave birth to a ghost baby.
- 11529Ironically, I didn't play the game about a country where everyone is stuck in quarantine in all of 2020. But tonight I wanted to take a mountain hike, and got into a lot of trouble encountering terrorists with high-level equipment during a timed mission, and getting killed. I ended up stealing my stuff back from them and running like the wind. Very intense.
- 11528I completed 45/70 orders.
- 11531To get Lockne and the mountain base on my side, I needed to bring her twin sister Mama or MÃ¥lingen, as is her real and weird name. I walked through thick snow, which is neat, and of course, when it's snowing, it's Time Snow, so it ruins my cargo. MÃ¥lingen died after cutting the umbilical cord with her ghost baby.
- 11540Awkward bathroom scene with Deadman. He took my baby ... sorry, BB away. I'm not cool with that.
- 11541I'm trying to level up my relationship with The Collector to get a cover for my backpack, but it's not happening. I read somewhere that you sometimes need to sleep in the game for relationships to improve.
- 11542I'm doing errands in the mountain region to get my baby back.
- 11537I completed 53/70 orders.
- 11551I brought Mama's body to Heartman, the Nicolas Winding Refn lookalike who dies and goes to the afterlife every 21 minutes. Very interesting character.
- 11552I went to a BT-infested area with my truck and collected some stuff. The truck got slowly destroyed by the rain, and also ran out of battery. I had to ditch it and carry a ridiculous amount of cargo over the mountains. This game has great systems for creating these moments.
- 11555I think I have 2.5 hours left of the story.
- 11559I did a boss fight with a giant BT with Higgs and Amelie embedded inside. It was frustrating, yet trivial due to unlimited continues without loss of progress. After that, I went to a Beach and fought Higgs man-to-man, ending up with us punching the shit out of each other. After that, there was an incredibly cheesy sequence where I ran with Amelie along the Beach. Cliff Unger shows up, and Amelie kicks me out of the Beach. No idea what's going on.
- 11560I had to walk all across the map west. After that, I did a final boss fight with Cliff Unger, this time in Vietnam.
- 11561After the final boss fight, a credit sequence started. 2 hours later, after a *lot* of cutscenes, and the final credits finally end.
- 11562Completed the game.
- 11583I was thinking about playing this some more. There are a few interesting exploration-related trophies to attempt:
- In Sam We Trust: Connect all facilities to the UCA.
- God Particle Go-Getter: Find Higgs's home (West of Lake Knot City)
- Any Porter in a Storm: Trade with NPC Porter (find porter, like them, lay cargo down)
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