I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Lunar%) in 21m 41s | Speedrun [DOS]
2I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995) by Cyberdreams
Best Ending (Lunar%) | Speedrun
Played by Kerlbuerste
About the game:
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a 1995 point-and-click adventure game developed by Cyberdreams and The Dreamers Guild, co-designed by Harlan Ellison and published by Cyberdreams. The game is based on Ellison's short story of the same title. It takes place in a dystopian world where a mastermind artificial intelligence named "AM" has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, whom he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years by constructing metaphorical adventures based on each character's fatal flaws. The player interacts with the game by making decisions through ethical dilemmas that deal with issues such as insanity, rape, paranoia, and genocide.
The premise of the game is that the three superpowers, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States, have each secretly constructed a vast subterranean complex of computers to wage a global war too complex for human brains to oversee. One day, the American supercomputer, better known as the Allied Mastercomputer, gains sentience and absorbs the Russian and Chinese supercomputers into itself, and redefines itself as simply AM (Cogito ergo sum; I think, therefore I am). Due to its immense hatred for humanity, stemming from the logistical limits set onto him by programmers, AM uses its abilities to kill off the population of the world. However, AM refrains from killing five people (four men and one woman) in order to bring them to the center of the earth and torture them. With the aid of research carried out by one of the five remaining humans, AM is able to extend their lifespans indefinitely as well as alter their bodies and minds to his liking.
After 109 years of torture and humiliation, the five victims stand before a pillar etched with a burning message of hate. AM tells them that he now has a new game for them to play. AM has devised a quest for each of the five, an adventure of "speared eyeballs and dripping guts and the smell of rotting gardenias". Each character is subjected to a personalized psychodrama, designed by AM to play into their greatest fears and personal failings, and occupied by a host of different characters.
About the run:
Difficult because if you skip certain scenes you can softlock the game.
I got the best benny rng and solved all other chapters without any major mistakes. In the final chapter I played it save and lost some time, but overall everything worked out quite well. Lunar% is the best possbile ending in the game in which 300 people are in cryosleep at the moon. You save those people from AM and restore humanity...for now.
Great game based a an even greater novel. There are a total of 7 different endings.
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