![]() ![]() 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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