Flamekebab

On launch 2042 was complete crap but I had some fun with it two years ago. I particularly liked being able to swap out my weapon attachments on the fly.

Ye gods, that’s bloody hideous. Throw a CRT filter over that, at the very least!

The laws vary by jurisdiction.

In the UK copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one, which means that the owner of copyrighted content must be willing to spend time and money pursuing legal action. That means that whilst it’s not legal, it’s a sort of “what are you going to do about it?” situation.

There’s also an element here of “if you get caught”. If no one but you knows then there’s unlikely to be legal consequences, for obvious reasons.

The “grand question” is about what constitutes transformative work and how your jurisdiction handles ownership of transformative works. You’ll need to look that up yourself.

Ultimately it seems like a lot of hassle and risk for far too little gain.

“We found several tapes with lost Doctor Who episodes in an old Nintendo office!”

The approach they took with the framing device really confused me. I very much enjoyed the Desmond arc, until it ended abruptly, never delivering on what it promised.

The following games seemed to be a scattered mess that I found difficult to follow.

I very much enjoyed being able to exit the Animus at any time, have a wander around, talk to friendly characters, and take a breather. I found the Animus concept worked well for me as a way to suspend disbelief. Why can’t I go over there? Because the person I’m playing as never did! Oh, I died? Well that didn’t happen, so let’s rewind that and get back into synch.

There’s some good stuff there, but it’s such a fragmented mess that it feels hard to retain and contextualise.

Why can’t we have some present day sections that advance the overall plot? Feel free to write the protagonists being defeated, or having to flee, or whatever if it’s needed to keep the saga going. Let them win sometimes and lose others.

In general the framing device makes me like the series a lot more than I otherwise might. It allows for all sorts of fun things (such as the reason for things like the cyclops to exist).

I guess I’d better get my Steam Deck RMA’d so that I can actually play this. Do we know which DLC packs are needed for it?