It's not happening in-character or anything. though I have no defense for or interest in trying to defend the scene where you're watching a naked girl in a shower with no explanation or justification. Even one of its qualities I consider a bit of a flaw feeds into this strength: the story doesn't 'know' what it wants to be as far as genres like comedy etc, springing gruesome tragedy with rather little warning and other swerves that stories usually avoid but that real life can easily have. In fact, that's especially impressive given how ridiculous several of the plotpoints are and whatnot. There are too many horror games where you're an invincible killing machine who has nothing to fear, too many post-apocalypses where you have unlimited ability to buy whatever you need, etc.įor all the execution problems, Sunrider did a surprisingly good job of getting me immersed into the overall experience of the setting and general shape of the story. One of my recurring frustrations with games is that they try desperately to get the player to connect to the experience in a visceral way, and then their game design decisions are so fundamentally contrary to the intended experience that it doesn't matter that five hundred artists slaved away for man-decades over making everything as detailed as possible. But the game puts an unusual amount of effort into trying to capture the idea of being a lone ship -later joined by some allies- trying to take on the vastly more numerous bad guys, and that effort is unusually competent. The story is boring and dumb and I don't intend to talk about it much. The gameplay is flawed, though I like its potential.
Eventually I realized that, for all its flaws, it's a game I like because it's an effective experience. I've got a few posts lined up to talk about the game, but I kept finding myself stumbling on the fact that there were things I wanted to say about the game that didn't fit into any of the bubbles I was putting the posts into.
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