Despite all of the hacking mini-games and LCD screens, it’s very analog. The side that tries to lure you into strange places and take part in people’s most intimate secrets. The result is a world that feels fuller and more textured, not because it’s populated with choice and possibility, but because of their very absence. I can only witness the fragments of their pre-programmed existence and move on to the next apartment. These are people I’m too late to help or save.
#DEUS EX MANKIND DIVIDED APARTMENT 202 MOVIE#
An ebook sitting on someone’s desk, movie posters hanging on the wall, painkillers sitting in the medicine cabinet-each object builds the sense of a life caving in under the pressures of Mankind Divided ‘s world. Either way, the game seems to have swallowed them up, leaving behind a sea of digital residue to sift through. Maybe the people are at work, or fled the city, or worse. The apartments you break into in Mankind Divided are almost always empty. A few blocks away I come across a well-dressed man lying face down in the sewers and wonder if it’s him-the man I’d been reading about. To open a shop, maybe? Or escape the city altogether? They’re debating whether to take their life savings and seek help from the local mob. One couple in Prague is trying to get a permit from the government for … something. Every person in the game has a unique story, but the precise shape of their life always seems to elude me. Email addresses and names, many of them Czech, are strewn about Mankind Divided like confetti. If you’re anything like me, the details don’t stick half as well as the general impression they create. The bodies only ever tell part of the story, with the rest hidden in nearby computer terminals or PDAs. These are people I’m too late to help or saveĭeus Ex: Mankind Divided is home to many tragedies like this. The child will not be born in Golem City after all. Or was the message from Ana to her husband? Either way, it seems someone took the news very badly. “I will not bring another child into this world,” it says. I find a PDA that has a message on it from Ana’s husband. Given what I’ve seen so far of Golem City, I’d agree.īut how did this apartment-more of a cargo container with furniture, really-end up as a mausoleum? Navigating the blood stains, I loot each body for extra information and some pocket change. Without actually coming out and saying it, the doctor seems to suggest that Ana should get an abortion. But Golem City’s daycare was recently shut down, the doctor informs her, and infant mortality is through the roof. The messages are from her doctor informing her that she’s pregnant. One of them was probably named Ana, at least according to the emails in a computer nearby. Normally, I’d be the one to put them there, but not this time. There’s an apartment in Golem City littered with dead bodies.
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