ME-EM MACHINE - Let's Play 「 Dustborn 」 - 3
2Dustborn
Developed by Red Thread Games
Published by Spotlight by Quantic Dream
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/72...
Walkthrough/Playthrough/Let's Play
Description:
Pax, Noam, and Sai are Anomals, who have to hide their Vox powers to avoid persecution from the governments of Pacifica and the American Republic. The trio is recruited by Theo to help steal data from the technocratic government of Pacifica and to deliver it to Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, this also makes them fugitives as they flee from the authorities of both states. Pax, being the unofficial leader, must use her own Vox powers and social skills wisely in order to make it to Nova Scotia and hopefully find a new home where she and her friends can be free.
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0:00 Recap
0:22 Issue 2 Start
I feel like every issue from here on will take at least two videos to get through. On the bright side, more videos means I can at least somewhat dilute Youtube's search results. Hell, maybe I should make all videos going forward half an hour long to further increase the dilution.
1:12 Outside Liberty
Yes, I had to reload several times to optimize this part.
Make sure Sai doesn't attack the front gate, or the citizens will call you out on it later.
When sneaking through the hidden entrance, Fred will catch you. You cannot allow the conversation timer to run out, or she will shoot Noam in the mechanical arm.
According to Fred, Pax was a bully. Sadly, I don't think my present dialogue choices will be able to fully make up for her past mistakes.
12:32 Liberty
The citizens have turned into a paranoid cult worshiping Jane of the Void.
25:45 Reunion w/Annie
Pax was exiled for the good of the village.
Annie is using robots and opium so the village can stay afloat, but Pax and most residents don't like this.
34:56 Liberty
37:04 Pax's House
There's an arcade machine with pong.
42:00 Flashback
Pax regrets the way she treated Ziggy on my save file, but I wonder if she would feel the same way on a villainous playthrough. IMO, the lack of manual saves only exacerbates the negative reputation that Pax has, since people are unable to reload for the nicer dialogue choices. My version of Pax seems to be a flawed individual who is trying her best to be kind and empathetic, but other people are getting borderline sociopaths.
44:38 Pax's House
The Me-Em machine isn't here. I think it's supposed to be spelled Meme, but Pax got the order of the letters wrong.
46:56 Liberty
59:11 Flashback
1:06:44 Liberty
Ziggy believes Pax ran away and refuses to reconcile with her.
In the kitchen, you can avoid using Vox on Ziggy by spamming the crew button. Still, even the most diplomatic choice won't be enough to mend things.
1:23:21 Flashback
You get a tutorial on how to use the Me-Em to record and capture Echoes, which are basically Ishmelga. I personally don't like the idea of having brainwashing gimmicks in antifa games, since the whole point of fascism is that it represents the dark side of humanity's free will. Ishmelga and the Echoes take away some degree of agency and responsibility from the humans, and IRL, people don't need supernatural interference to go down this path. To the game's credit, it appears that JFK's radicalization took place before the Broadcast, so unlike the people of Liberty, he has complete agency.
1:29:46 Liberty
Due to the escalation between Fred and Annie, Pax argues that it's imperative that Ziggy leaves Liberty.
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