Update Fifty-Nine: 8 October 2017

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Wadjet Eye has a special place in my heart. It’s a niche developer/publisher that serves one market and serves it very well - traditional pixel point-n-clicks made in different permutations of Adventure Game Studio. They are always polished, feature many of the same voice actors, and all come with delightful developer commentary tracks that net you an achievement for listening to them all the way through. My usual M.O. for this is to play the game through once, get all the other achievements, and then shelve it for some later date to get the developer’s commentary one. For Technobabylon, that time is now.

It’s one of my two favorite Wadjet Eye games and probably one of my favorite cyberpunk narratives period (yes, better than Dex). Cyberpunk isn’t just an aesthetic - it’s a social commentary, set of themes to explore, and way to look at the world on a macro (universal) and micro (individual person) scale. This game is great about doing all of it - wrestling with themes of megacorps and genetic engineering as well as themes of how far do you go for family and how much privacy should each person get.

Also: women!!! There are so many women in this game who are important. Two of the three player characters and (most) of the Big Bads of the game are intelligent, nuanced women who move and shake the plot. It’s great and awesome and see you guys it’s not that hard you just literally have to put them in there.

I strongly recommend this for people anywhere remotely interested in cyberpunk and/or point and click adventure games. I’m very happy to finally have this marked as complete c:

Next up: Before I launch into my last rewind, I want to take a break and do something less…. point and clicky. All my rewinds have been point and clicks, for some reason! For now, I want to spend some time with

See you soon!