But this is another callback to Lords of the Fallen, isn't it, which also began with a pre-rendered intro cinematic that was largely cock-all to do with the rest of the game. As it stands, for all we know, the torture porn cinematic and everything following could just be some kind of "How Not to Do It" occupational health and safety video they're making Warren watch. Maybe if Warren had interacted with another human being during the wheelchair prologue segment, we could have gotten a handle on some context. Bam! Now you're in a junkyard fighting robots.
I came here for some exciting sci-fi action, but you seem to be showing cripple torture porn. I'm sorry, The Surge perhaps there's a bit of a misunderstanding. It's quite harrowing, and I'm not even sure what the point of it is. You see, what follows the prologue is a cinematic in which Warren gets his all his fancy new cyber-bits drilled into his flesh, except they forgot the anesthetic, and he's awake and screaming the whole way through, as the camera zooms gratuitously in on the blood squirting out of his new shoulder-mounted shelf bracket. So he probably felt a bit gipped when it turned out all they were going to do was nail bits of scrap metal to his legs. That's actually pretty neat, storytelling-wise just a smidgen ripped off from James Cameron's Avatar, but hey, without cutscenes or dialogue, we've established our protagonist is vulnerable and hoping for the better life that this tech company's industrial robot suits can offer. It's like putting on a favorite old sweater and smacking yourself in the balls with your childhood teddy.Īnd The Surge got off to such a promising start, too: we open on a futuristic train with our slightly generic main character, Warren - so called because he likes sticking rabbits up his bum - making his way to his first day at work with some kind of tech company, and when we're given control, we move him away from his seat and see for the first time that he's wheelchair-bound. I feel like I've been easier-going lately it's probably because I have a small dog now, but I forgot how much I enjoy really hating things. In fact, let's not mince words I think I might hate The Surge. I don't know if The Surge is as short as Lords of the Fallen I've heard it is, but I couldn't say because I stopped playing at the third boss.
#ZERO PUNCTUATION GONE HOME FULL#
Sadly, there's very little erotic about The Surge, which continues many of the trends started by Lords of the Fallen in that the combat's a bit clunky and most of the characters look like they covered themselves in glue and rolled around in a dumpster full of old dishwasher parts. "Tenderly, he caressed her surging kneecaps."
Seriously, try it: describe any human body part as "surging", and voila, you're writing erotic fiction. But nonetheless emboldened, having gotten the straight rip-off out of the way with a dark fantasy game, Deck13 now moves to bring super-hard exploration RPGs to the world of science fiction with their new game, The Surge, thus breathing new life into the word "surge", which was previously of use only to electricians and erotic fiction writers. When Deck13 Interactive set out to make a game to rival Dark Souls, the nay-sayers said it couldn't be done, but Deck13 damn well knuckled down and made Lords of the Fallen, thus proving the nay-sayers right, because Lords of the Fallen was, while superficially Dark Souls-esque, short, boring, and reminiscent of a D&D campaign run by a bloke who collects knives. This episode premiered in the (nominally) post-ZP Escapist Twitch stream and was released on the Escapist website a few hours later.
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