LogFAQs > #882492245

If the player fails at any point during the previous scenes (ie, getting knocked out via low health), they don't "respawn" in the same place, but wake up on a desert planet covered with junk, where they apparently crashed/were dumped after their failure. At this point, the player has to use a "dongle" (sort of like the Wii Nunchuk attachment, without the Wiimote itself) and a "tap pad" (basically just a large cel phone-sized thin rectangle with a large square button on it - I swear I've seen something like it at some point in my life, but I can't remember where and I can't find a picture of it anywhere through vague searching) to explore the planet, searching for a way off to continue their mission.

This is about where the dream sort of fuzzed out, but the implication is that the game keeps deliberately cycling through different genres of play and forcing the player to use different controllers (probably about a dozen or so, all-told, and some may repeat). After I woke up and thought about it for a bit it occurred to me that it shifts sort of in the same way Frog Fractions does, but that's meant to be a comedic game, whereas this is played more deadly straight, and generally keeps the overarching sci-fi plot all the way through.

There was also a part at the end of the game where I did dream the climatic fight-scene against the final boss, which took place in a large empty room, where the enemy could sort of turn into light and dash at you, and where the player strategy basically revolved around knowing when to dodge, knowing when to do your own dash attack, and whether to key your own attacks to either physical or energy damage. And then, once you beat them, the camera sort of pans up to a starry skyscape, and an (again) deliberately retro-cheesy sort of faux-philosophical ending narration plays, as the light slowly fades and the stars go dark.



Now I am angry I don't live in the world where it truly exists.


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"Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76
"POwned again." --- blight family