Crowboy is a squawking advert for shotguns. I also appreciate the amount of incidental dialogue, even if I do wish it was mixed up a bit so that you weren't always triggering the same soundbites about "Kaiser" Constantine or whatever while trying to find somewhere with this awful, awful map.)Ĭrow is great. It's not exactly Hitman: Blood Money's Mardi Gras, but there's more than enough to feel like a living place without NPCs getting in the way. (It's also worth noting that the place is actually populated for once, with crowds of people ambling around instead of coming up with some bullshit justification for why the streets are empty. It's a place you can imagine people choosing to live, not simply being trapped to await death. But there's also excitement, life, and passion, as well as a cultural mix of everyone from punks with holographic mohawks to girls in mass-produced Bingo T-Shirts.
There's no shortage of decay, and at least informed danger when it comes to bad streets and gangsters and the increasing police presence. There are police checkpoints, but there are also big (peaceful) demonstrations protesting them, instead of everyone just rolling over and accepting that things are what they are. The main topic of conversation is an upcoming political election, and while it's pointed out that none of them are going to save the world, there's a buzz on the streets as everyone discusses their favourite candidates. Put bluntly, and unlike most cyberpunk worlds I've seen, just about everything you see is there to reinforce that the people who live here actually give a shit. Okay, so it's slightly over-worked for an election poster, but.ĭespite its problems though, and Zoe very clearly still fighting the depression she had at the start of Dreamfall, it's not the problems that really stand out in her district-Propast-but the sense of life. Penguin returned to spread joy to the world, or the Romeo Cleaners turned up to wash away the filth of the streets without their trousers on.
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Dreams have become the latest drug, the streets are full of junkies, and even those who can hook themselves up are increasingly finding themselves trapped in endless nightmares. Skip forward to Dreamfall Chapters and the world is a distinctly worse place, not least because Dreamfall didn't go particularly well for Team TLJ. It's a dystopia to to be sure, but one where people can hope to live rather than simply exist, that still has time for magic in its own way-represented early on by art and love, and later with the likes of friendship and sacrifice.
Look around though and what you see are people, working in cafes, squabbling, screwing, fighting for their dreams and everything that you'd see today, only with really filthy canals and the occasional really weird puzzle. Look up and you see the cyberpunk city of Newport with all its drugs and hackers and filth. The Longest Journey notably introduced Stark through the eyes of two artists-its main character, April Ryan, as an art student, and the series' creator Ragnar Tørnquist, patterning her district of Venice (our first impression of this world) on New York's East Village. What makes it different is perspective, both on the creative side, and the viewpoint that we get on it. Much like the episode, the world isn't THAT big, but it's densely packed.
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