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6About Beholder
Welcome to a grim dystopian future. A totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and public life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead. You are the State-installed manager of an apartment building. Your daily routine involves making the building a sweet spot for tenants, who will come and go. However, that is simply a facade that hides your real mission... Your primary task is to covertly watch your tenants and eavesdrop on their conversations. You must BUG their apartments while they're away, SEARCH their belongings for whatever can threaten the authority of the State, and PROFILE them for your superiors. You must also REPORT anyone capable of violating the laws or plotting subversive activities against the State to the authorities. You are a cog in a totalitarian machine with your own family who also has needs. Do you cling to your humanity and cover up your tenants? Or do you survive by staying loyal to the regime? The choice is yours. You can report the suspicious activities of a father but orphan his children. Or you can withhold the details about his illegal activities and give him a chance to make things right? Or you can blackmail him to
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I hated to love so much about this game
I hated to love so much about this game. So much great stuff, I got really hooked with the duality of the situation as well as the strategical elements. It looked perfect at the start. With a brilliant story and art, this game didn’t need anything else to be a success… except that someone had the brilliant idea to make the whole game about “beating the clock”. I know some people are going to say: “So what, I like the challenge.” but some other people, like me, find this kind of game challenge the cheapest and most unsatisfying of them all. Much like jumping platforms. A game this beautiful deserves to be appreciated, then absorbed while people play with it, not to be rushed through because there’s a clock ticking. So if you like to fight the clock go forward, but if like me you don’t, stay away because that’s the core of this game’s gameplay.
- Graphics3.0
- Gameplay3.0
- Story3.0
- Value2.0
Day 1: Move into a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ basement apartment, decide I'm just gonna do my job a la Papers Please
Day 1: Move into a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ basement apartment, decide I'm just gonna do my job a la Papers Please Day 2: Son wants some expensive books for college. The nice german guy upstairs was more than willing to provide Day 3: Spot German dude breaking the apple ordinance laws, which is punishable by gulag. He was nice, I let it slide. Day 4: Sketchy Irish guy shows up trying to sell stolen contraband canned fish that stink like actual ♥♥♥♥. I send officers to send him to gulag Day 5: Fatass doctor moves in, conveniently my daughter gets deathly ill at the same time Day 6: Buy doctor a hooker so he'll help my daughter, need 10,000 for medicine Day 9: Saved almost enough money, but catch doctor reading a medical book. Books are illegal. Doctor goes to gulag Day 10: Daughter dies Day 11: Son gets kicked out of university for not going to class Day 12: University debt collectors kick the ♥♥♥♥ out of me in an alley, take their payment Day 15: Son wants to go to new university out of country, would cost 10,000. Day 19: Have evicted several nice old ladies and stolen enough ♥♥♥♥ to have almost enough money Day 20: Son runs off since I only raised 9,800. I catch my wife in bed.....with a book. Books are illegal. She should go to gulag Day 21: Wife stays since I'm feeling nice instead of actual Stalin. Day 22: Reports that my son attempted to pull of the Pacific Standard Heist solo and got shot in the face. Get charged 5,000 for association, 1,000 for funeral. Day 23: Wife asks me to buy groceries, send her to gulag instead. Day 24: Catch like four people reading, entire house looks like a DEA raid Day 25: Wife's funeral bill comes in. Can't afford it, so get sent to gulag. Everyone goes to gulag in the end.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.5
- Value4.0
One of my best buys this year
- Annoying, nagging wife wants to spend my hard-earned government money on stupid, trivial things every freaken hour. - What's a humble family man to do? - Plant illegal items under her mattress. - Report her to the government. - Front row seat to her being dragged away crying in handcuffs and thrown into a police van. - Happily sit in wonderful silence with my money.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.5
- Story4.0
- Value4.5
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