![]() They take their name rather seriously too, wearing Elizabethan era powdered wigs and expensive clothes complete with ruffs, marching with rifles equipped with bayonets. The rich few prosper in their ivory tower (well, the main baddie is in a tower, the rest of them just seem to have quite nice mansions…) while the poor masses struggle and die in squalor and disease. The fact that their name term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning ‘rule of the best’, should give you some idea about how they run things. The city is ruled over by a government known as the Aristocracy. Once Amy has fixed the reactor the game beings proper and she rises into a world both devastated and beautiful, bathed in the eerie green glow of uranium glass shards, used by survivors as a source of light. It’s amazing what strong voice work and simply drawn character portraits can convey – it wasn’t until near the very end of the game that this reviewer realised the characters mouths didn’t move when they spoke! In the end, it didn’t even matter. Shelly Shenoy in particular is superb as Amy, remaining endearing throughout even when she has to do the unspeakable. Can change be made in this new world without blood being spilt? The voice acting is superb and easily fills in any emotional gaps left by the old-school aesthetic. It’s a sudden punctuation point of violence that becomes a recurring theme in Shardlight. His dying request? Shoot him in the head with a crossbow, then deliver a letter. The gorgeousness of the pixel-art and intuitive opening puzzles offer a gentle opening, but things soon change rather drastically when Amy finds the previous lottery worker crushed beneath some rubble deep inside the reactor. If her ticket is drawn, she’ll be given a rare vaccine… but it will only delay the inevitable. It’s a lottery job – successful completion will grant her with a lottery ticket. Shardlight begins with Amy Wellard entering a dangerous nuclear reactor to restore power. Vaccine is in short supply, rationed by a totalitarian government that favours the rich… but that won’t stop Amy fighting for her life. She’s now slowly dying of Green Lung, a disease that is wiping out the population at an alarming rate. ![]() Another old-school pixel-art point-and-click adventure game (try saying that five times in a row!), Shardlight is set 20 years after a cataclysmic disaster has levelled the city Amy Wellard lives in. ![]() Shardlight is the latest game from Wadjet Eye Games, publisher of The Blackwell Epiphany, Resonance and Gemini Rue (to name but a few).
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