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078: Beginning of Sorrows (Trailer) Author: Wesley McElwee Release Date: November 21, 2000
Wesley had planned a followup to his Friends Beyond series, as we see in this brief (although not THAT brief) trailer. The title is from the bible according to this title screen, and it fits the events in the trailer quite well.
The story here is about a faction developing killer robots with awe-inspiring power. They reason that they do what they do because the opposing faction is so crazy that the consequences of not doing so could be even worse. I really like the story here. The writing is a lot sharper than in "Friends Beyond." The characters talk very much like real people, and they question the morality of what they're doing to themselves before nervously rationalizing it away. It really gripped me and I would be excited to play the full version.
Unfortunately, the full version never came. Wesley explained in a 2006 review that the data for this DMOD was lost in a hard drive failure, and he decided to move on. Them's the breaks. Make backups, people.
There are some nice graphics here, including the recolored Mystery Island robots and this establishing shot. The problem is that Dink is never frozen, so pressing "talk" at any time produces the familiar text ("I'm bored," etc.), which kind of undercuts the drama a bit. What's worse, in the scene where we see Dink himself (in an ordinary Dink setting - how was this intended to coexist with the more modern-looking scenes?), you can walk around as you please.
Anyway, there's not much to see here. Just a little tease of what could have been, but wasn't.
Next time: Another epic already? Yes, it's Stone of Balance.
Wesley had planned a followup to his Friends Beyond series, as we see in this brief (although not THAT brief) trailer. The title is from the bible according to this title screen, and it fits the events in the trailer quite well.
The story here is about a faction developing killer robots with awe-inspiring power. They reason that they do what they do because the opposing faction is so crazy that the consequences of not doing so could be even worse. I really like the story here. The writing is a lot sharper than in "Friends Beyond." The characters talk very much like real people, and they question the morality of what they're doing to themselves before nervously rationalizing it away. It really gripped me and I would be excited to play the full version.
Unfortunately, the full version never came. Wesley explained in a 2006 review that the data for this DMOD was lost in a hard drive failure, and he decided to move on. Them's the breaks. Make backups, people.
There are some nice graphics here, including the recolored Mystery Island robots and this establishing shot. The problem is that Dink is never frozen, so pressing "talk" at any time produces the familiar text ("I'm bored," etc.), which kind of undercuts the drama a bit. What's worse, in the scene where we see Dink himself (in an ordinary Dink setting - how was this intended to coexist with the more modern-looking scenes?), you can walk around as you please.
Anyway, there's not much to see here. Just a little tease of what could have been, but wasn't.
Next time: Another epic already? Yes, it's Stone of Balance.
