Technobabylon - Review @ Hardcore Gaming 101

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Jonathan Kaharl (Hardcore Gaming 101) has reviewed Technobabylon:

Back in 2010, a small indie group called Technocrat released three episodes of a planned ten episode game series called Technobabylon, a cyberpunk thriller of a point and click that took things back to the old school sensibilities. Then, the project silently disappeared, as the team went on to make games like "Nancy the Happy Whore and the Perfidious Petrol Station" (yes, really, and it's apparently not that dirty). Not where most would put their priorities, but whatever. Come 2015, the game finally got a full and proper release with the help of Wadjet Eye Games, the creators of the Blackwell series and countless other adventure game gems from the past few years. All ten episodes, the three finish and seven planned, were finished and given a new coat of paint by Wadjet Eye's talented art team, then compiled together into one full title, making it one of the largest games in the studio's entire library up to that date (if not THE largest). It took about four years, but the wait was certainly worth it. It was the big hit Technocrat needed, but as far as the title weighs on Wadjet Eye's output, it came up with a few issues.

The game's story proper follows three main characters in the cyberpunk city of Newton. The first character is Latha Sesame, a junkie of Trance, a sort of internet of the future that loads itself directly in the user's brain. Her normal day trancing goes wrong when she's locked up in her home by faulty tech, then nearly killed when a bomb goes off one apartment under her, just as she's managing to escape. Her story intertwines with the stories of Charlie Regis and Max Lao, two members of the CEL. They work as investigators for the city and are on the track of a dangerous mindjacker that has been killing hundreds of people across the city. Things become complicated as Regis finds himself being blackmailed by an unknown person, and things quickly start spiraling out of control and his past starts catching up with him. Among all this is Central, the world's greatest AI that runs Newton, and the center of all the conflict that's occurring. [...]
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