outside-your-window replied to your post “Prey is really fucking good and I’m not very far into it (I’m just...”
I don't understand half of this, but I'm very amused. I'm guessing this is a game. This is particularly funny, because I once read a book where some teenagers go to the moon only to discover there's a mimic on it going around killing everyone.
It is a game, and it’s a really great game, but I am very very bad at it.
Basically, you’re Morgan Yu, and you wake up on March 15, 2032, ready to go do some basic aptitude tests before you launch next week, because you’re going to work in neuroscience research on the space station Talos I. The tests are... strange, and clearly something’s wrong, because the way your new coworkers are acting about your responses is deeply weird, and then the doctor in charge of the scene tries to take a sip of his coffee and gets his face ripped off by the jittering black spider thing that used to be his mug, and you’re sedated.
You’re Morgan Yu. You wake up on March 15, 2032, ready to go do some basic aptitude tests before you launch next week.
Anyways it turns out you’ve been on Talos I the whole time, and you’ve been reliving that day for roughly three years, apparently at your own request and your brother’s agreement, testing neuromods, which can teach anyone a skill instantly... with the caveat if you remove them, your memory resets to the moment before you installed them, and also the station has been taken over by aliens called Typhon, which come in many horrifying flavors the most common of which is mimics. Before you went under this last time, you set a backdoor up with yourself, in case of Typhon attacks or your brother refusing to let you out (both of which have happened!), and now that you’ve escaped, it turns out a part of that backdoor is that you have to blow the station up to protect Earth from the Typhon threat.
I have just enough very thin evidence (and like, I keep getting more equally thin evidence, I’m aware this is a dumb stance but it’s not an unreasonable stance) that I believe that you aren’t actually Morgan Yu. You’re a mimic yourself, convinced you’re Morgan Yu. Where is Morgan Prime? No fucking clue. But I’m not very far into the game, so.
It was made by the same team that made Dishonored 1 & 2, so the worldbuilding is excellent, it’s super gorgeous (futuristic art deco and it Works) and it’s mostly a sneak and hide game (though you can play guns blazing), and there’s like six options for any given puzzle. I’m bugged in a couple of not game breaking ways, mostly my enemies are way too tough for where I am in the game, and I keep hitting the computers with my wrench when I’m trying to read emails.
