Yes, Shardlight doesn’t miss a beat here when checking off the cliches, from the ramshackle marketplace to the doomsday cult to the propaganda posters. Of course, this eventually leads to her stumbling onto a group of revolutionaries determined to expose The Aristocrats for who they are (and yes, the villains are actually called “The Aristrocrats,” even dressing up in powdered wigs and turn-of-the-century clothing like they were BioShock Infinite characters) and uncover their conspiracy, because of course there’s a conspiracy in a story like this. Finding herself with some of the disease’s symptoms, Amy takes on a dangerous government job in order to win a lottery ticket to hopefully save her from the deadlier stages of the illness. Shardlight is the story of Amy Wellard, a woman who has grown up in a country rocked by a bombing twenty years ago and finds several of its inhabitants suffering and potentially dying from a deadly disease called Green Lung. Again, they use them as the blueprints for a well-crafted game…but this time, even though the end result is still enjoyable, they left out some of the unique flair in the process and had a few chips in the structure. Now Wadjet Eye has taken on the role of the developer again for their latest title, Shardlight, and have swapped out the cyberpunk tropes for post-apocalyptic dystopia tropes. Of course, Wadjet Eye was the publisher behind that game, with Technocrat being the developer. It may have been overflowing with cyberpunk tropes, but it still managed to use those tropes as a foundation for a well-constructed game draped with its own unique flair. Just take Wadjet Eye’s offering from last year, T echnobabylon.
And as mentioned, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
#Reaper shardlight Pc#
Last month when revealing Shardlight’s release date, I noted how Wadjet Eye Games tends to often stick to the familiar territory of graphic adventure games with the look and feel of mid-’90s PC titles.
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