THEY NAMED THE KID "PHI"
THIS IS THE SAME PHI
THIS HAS UCHIKOSHI WRITTEN ALL OVER IT
I guess I should watch what I wish for. I mentioned Uchikoshi and "?" before, and that was because he'd used a similar device in Ever17. To very quickly destroy a game that some might find worth playing, a set of people were trapped by chance in an underwater theme park, and, to make sure everyone got out, they trapped themselves and their children -- who were, incidentally, conceived during the original disaster -- to repeat history. The game also featured the outbreak of a lethal pathogen. At the very end, all of the characters thanked "Blick Winkel," also known as the player, for influencing everything in that park both times to get everyone out.
I came into this expecting some of this to appear in this game because trademarks don't really go away, and Uchikoshi is well-received in general; why fix a formula if it's not broken? I mentioned "?" in an earlier post because I expected it to come into play somehow. Carlos, Diana, and Q all talked about how they didn't know why they submitted the fatal hammer vote, so that's the set-up for revealing the player's role in everything. I just didn't expect
all
of it, so seeing Diana and Sigma conceive twins who would later come back and set all the wheels in motion was less surprising or amazing but more eye-rolling. I don't know.
I really don't know what I was expecting. I'm just disappointed, I guess.
There doesn't seem to be much of the game left, so let's see how the rest of it goes.
Also, on further thought, the relationship between Diana and Sigma is creepy. Sigma is 40+ years older than Diana, but he's also known her previously due to having already been in a relationship with some different version of her. The way this fragment played out, Sigma laid out what he knew about her, which affected how she saw him. I mean, it was obvious that she was attracted to him, sure, but it felt like Sigma was specifically playing to her weaknesses and that's predatory. It doesn't matter that they're the last man and woman on the planet.