Dont Nod's Aphrlion: my ramblings as I play

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Going in blind. All i know is Dont Nod and space.

Wtf is this opening?

"2062, Earth dying from climate change.
ESA sending a manned mission to a new planet Persephone, 12.3 billion km away.
Explore a habitable zone called the source"


Wtf wtf. So much wrong with it.

First, no player knows how far away 12.3 billion km is. Like even i had to google it, I tend to use different units. So what do they expect players to think? Just that it is "far" and nothing else?

Second, ESA, really!? Lol 2062 is far enough in the future for things to change, but no one thinks the ESA is going to be leading stuff like this. Europe could be sending a probe, that would make sense. Europe has never launched a human to space, why is the game putting them in charge of this grand mission? Nasa, china, and us private companies are the only realistic options.

Third, they call it a "manned" mission. Just interesting since I've heared this game is socially progressive, but in space circles "manned" was replaced with "crewed." So do they just not know? Are they making a statement that manned was a better word? Are they not pushing this because it just confuses people? Who knows! But i noticed.

And last, what the fudge this is a really fudgy stupid plot. If Earth is dying, any other planet is still a billion times worse. Not a single person has ever thought climate change was a reason to move planets. It is just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid yet what the game seems to be doing.

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Ok the ship is burning its engines and accelerating to the planet still. Everyone gets this wrong. It needs to be flipped around and doing an insertion burn. avatar got it right.

The spinning habs looked ok. The cable tension of the ship looked odd. Overall the ship design is maybe a C.

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Ok that was really weird. The lady and dude astronauts are arguing in their bedroom about love, and the lady says the mission comes first and hears the creaking of the ship.

And then a shuttle is crashing onto the planet, with her in it and the guy not seen.

So badly just needed a shot of the shuttle leaving the ship, of the crew doing anything to prep. Instead of making it seem like the shuttle scene was happening at the same time.

And now she is crashed on the surface cause the esa made this mission and of course have no experience with this type of stuff.

The trope of a mission going poorly at the beginning just "cause" sucks so much. Literally nothing happened. Just her shuttle failed. No surprise in the environment.

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Are you fudgy kidding me!?!?!? Lol this landing shuttle is the size of a star wars imperial ship almost.

Just two fudgy people on this mission. And the landing craft is the size of an aircraft carrier. What the fudgy fudge? Like I don't think I've ever seen a movie or game this bad with the sizing before. And this one is trying to be realistic with esa logos and stuff everywhere.

Also, to be clear, this is HABITABLE SPACE!!! Not that the landing shuttle had a big engine room. It had an aircraft carrier level of open human designed space that the lady just slid down. So freaking silly.



And I guess the planet has oxygen cause there are regular fires everywhere.

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Insta death if you don't do what the game wants. I jumped maybe 5 feet down to a ledge and was killed. Guess I need to stick to yellow signposting only, no exploration.

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EXPLORATION MISSION 215D
LAUNCHING
random numbers

CREW 245B

On some metal in the ship. So maybe more than two people on the ship? That would make a lot more sense. We will see.

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That was weird. I think it auto moved me in the direction it wanted me to go, so that I wouldn't waste my time climbing right instead of left on this ladder.

Also, why was this ladder here? Ship is sodeways is it not? Why have a ladder on the floor/ceiling? Also.also, gravity seems close to Earth gravity. Will that be on purpose or will that just be somethiny they didn't care about. Only time will tell.

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Hey the media log has a good one. Correct mention of mission control being on an 18 hour time delay cause of the distance.

Also def just a two person crew.

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A plant from the ship is literally just chilling in this air. Cool lol. We got magic luck. She's for sure going to be taking off her helmat at some point.

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Got the title, wowy. Lame intro.

Also wtf her whole ship is gone and she is just focused on finding the dude, instead of salvaging literally anything. She just goes walking off.

And yeah she confrmed their goal is to move humanity here lol.


Edt: to give her a little credit, she is going to the mission objective and assuming the dude will go there too. So that is a nice change of pace.

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This ice area was annoying. Wanted to just run through it but had to walk slow or it would break. Missed the target area cause fog, had to do a full loop back through the slow walking area 

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Wtf we just had alien space magic. And she is just acting as if it is cool but nothing crazy.

Also the sun is now a big giant ball in the sky. Even bigger than the view from Earth lol.

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Jumped to a spot game didnt like again. Oops.

Now have to redo a boring part. oh wait that's all the parts.

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Oh great now i have to repeat it but play as the dude.

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Ok i liked the fakeout. Guy cant climb. Had stuff that was climable.