As I said before, you can feel the despair, the need for salvation. The atmosphere is a big part of why Shardlight’s story is so engaging. It does post-apocalypse, dystopia and run-down world perfectly, balancing the misery with joy masterfully, so when bad things happen to good people, you feel the emotional impact, you feel the loss, the rage and the shock. People laugh as much as they cry and that, for me, is Shardlight’s greatest strength. People scavenge and risk their lives against the oppression of the Aristocracy and some don’t trust anyone, but there are also communities, and friendships and loyal allies. The Green Lung disease and its effects, not only on the character but also on the people around her, are heartbreaking and you can feel their desperation for salvation, how much they need a cure, or at least stave off the terminal stages of the disease and avoid the quarantine zone.
It’s a post-apocalyptic spy thriller, where you begin knowing next to nothing and slowly you piece together the truth, some from what you’re told and the rest from your own actions.
The plot of Shardlight is just phenomenal. Accepting this request puts Amy right in the middle of government conspiracies, rebellion, the secrets of the Green Lung disease and the fatalist Reaper Cults of her city. He’s suspicious at first, until Amy mentions her name and her father, at which point the man hands over a letter to deliver to the mysterious Danton. After he helps Amy complete her task, she asks him if she can help him in any way. In there she finds the worker they sent before her, crushed under debris, slowly dying from his wounds. In comes our main character, Amy Wellard, a mechanic on a Lottery Job, repairing an old reactor. Things are so bleak that jobs don’t have a direct reward anymore, but a chance of one.
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The Aristocracy controls the supply of the only medicine that can manage the symptoms and while they and the rich get free access to it-as long as they remain useful-the poor have to do dangerous “Lottery Jobs,” where they receive tickets for the upcoming vaccine lottery. A disease called Green Lung is killing off the population. Genre(s): Point & Click Adventure (3rd Person) People don’t use lightbulbs anymore, but uranium shards, leaving the world in a strange green Shardlight glow. Disease and hopelessness grip the people, while the Aristocracy rules from their gilded homes. Years ago, the bombs came and destroyed the world.
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