Gemini Rue
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| Studio | Joshua Nuernberger Wadjet Eye Games |
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Wadjeteye Games Daedalic Entertainment
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| Senior Developer | Joshua Nuernberger | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
2011 | ||
| platform | Android , iOS , Linux , Mac OS X , Windows | ||
| Game engine | AGS | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Mouse , keyboard | ||
| medium | Download , DVD-ROM | ||
| language | English German | ||
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Gemini Rue - conspiracy Barracus is a point-and-click - graphic adventure in retro -Look, which was created by the American Joshua Nuernberger. It is science fiction - genre settled and uses the style of film noir . In Germany it is distributed by Daedalic Entertainment .
action
The first storyline begins on the Mafia-controlled planet Barracus in the Gemini system. The local criminal organization, the Boryokudan , controls not only the drug trade but also all state authorities. Policeman Azriel Odin sneaked into the city of Pittsburg to meet with an informant who had information about the whereabouts of Azriel's brother. He learns from the informant that the missing person has been abducted into space. To find out the brother's whereabouts, Azriel enters into a deal with the local Boryokudan leader. He promises to retrieve a shipment of drugs that the criminal organization has lost. Research leads him to Sayuri, a young outsider who wants to fight the Boryokudan drug trafficking. It comes from the Center-7 space station, where Azriel's brother is being held. Sayuri decides to help get into Center-7 because she wants to free a friend there herself, whom she had to leave behind when she escaped.
The character Delta-Six is played parallel to Azriel Odin. This is located in a rehabilitation facility for rehabilitation. After an attempt to escape, his memory was erased and needs to be conditioned again. It does this in the form of exercises that mainly focus on firearms training. These tasks are led by the director, who only appears in the form of a loudspeaker voice. Upon completion of the final exam, Delta-Six runs the risk of being erased again and being discharged with a fresh personality. To prevent this, another attempt to escape is imminent. Delta-Six gets help from Epsilon-Five, a young computer expert, and from Giselle, the organizer of the breakout attempt. But her plan does not go unnoticed and Giselle is shot while trying to escape. Delta-Six is also anesthetized and prepared for a new personality. Only Epsilon-Five can save himself on board a freighter and escape. From then on, she calls herself Sayuri.
Both storylines merge when Azriel and Sayuri break into Center-7 . Caught by the director , he tells them that they have fallen into his trap. There is no brother at all. This was just a built-in security that Azriel Odin was supposed to bring back to Center-7 . His personality is also constructed. It is just the unsuccessful result of special conditioning including facial surgery. He had been released as a professional killer for the Boryokudan , but eventually turned against them. In Center-7 , the director addresses him as Delta-Six .
Azriel's memory is again erased and Sayuri is locked in a cell. But she is able to free herself and, thanks to her computer skills, finds the confused Azriel . In order to be able to open security doors, she sabotages the reactor of the space station, which then has to be evacuated. With the doors open, Sayuri decides to get her original memory and breaks into the director's office . Even before she has the memory, the young woman is surprised and injured by a gunshot. Despite the impairment of his memory, Azriel rushes to Sayuri and shoots the director . Eventually they flee the station.
Location and style
The action takes place between the year 2228 and 2229 and is set in a galaxy inhabited by mankind.
Its first location is the formerly newly founded city of Pittsburg on the terraformed planet Barracuda in the Gemini system. Its style is based on that of film noir and combines it with elements of science fiction , which is strongly reminiscent of the film Blade Runner . The investigative main character wears a trench coat and conducts investigations in an eternally rainy and shabby city that resembles a neglected American east coast city from the eighties. It never seems to be daytime and its population is characterized by drug addicts and the homeless. The pessimistic situation becomes clear, according to which an overpowering criminal organization controls all government offices through corruption and violence.
The second location is the Center-7 space station , which is hidden in a fog away from the Gemini system. In contrast to the gloomy and dirty Pittsburg , apart from the maintenance rooms, it initially appears light and sterile. Nevertheless, elements of cyberpunk show up . So the station is just a prison whose modern technology is used to monitor and brainwash the inmates in order to create bespoke personalities. During their stay, their individuality is stolen from them by means of memory deletion. Their clothes are uniform and only differ in color. As a distinguishing feature, they have a number on their skin. Opposite them is the director , an impersonal voice from the loudspeaker who exercises absolute control.
main characters
- Azriel Odin - Before switching sides, he was a professional killer for the Boryokudan. He then became a police officer and has been fighting his old employers ever since. Is looking for his missing brother.
- Kane Harris - Azriel Odin's pilot and partner who assists him in his endeavor.
- Matthius Howard - ex-partner of Azriel Odin, with whom he also fought in the Gemini War. Vowed never to pick up a gun again. Now on the run from the Boryokudan. After helping Azriel Odin, he wants to follow his family to safety.
- Sayuri - Unregistered outsider on Barracus who wages a fight against the Boryokudan and their drug trafficking.
- Delta-Six - Prisoner in the Center-7 rehabilitation facility, where he is unofficially called Charlie. His memory was erased after trying to escape. Trained in the use of firearms.
- Epsilon-Five - fellow inmate of Delta-Six, where she is trained in the use of computers. Is under the protection of Delta-Six.
- Balder - Also prisoner of Center-7. He has a bad reputation as a loner.
- Giselle - inmate in the Center-7 rehabilitation facility. Evades the director's observation and organizes a breakout.
- The director - the decisive voice from the loudspeaker. Responsible for memory erasure and conditioning of test subjects from Center-7.
Game principle and technology
A special feature is the graphic retro - pixel optics in low resolution that the LucasArts - and Sierra resembles -classics at the beginning of the 1990s. It was created with the freeware »Adventure Game Studio« (AGS) , with all backgrounds being painted by hand.
The navigation and interaction with the protagonist of the game world is graphic adventure running -genretypisch with the mouse, which changed in the point-and-click method scenes and objects and people can be clicked. A small menu appears there, in which the player can choose between eye (looking), hand (using), speech bubble (speaking), foot (kicking) and an item from the inventory. The only exceptions are the use of boxes and the occasional combat operations that are carried out using the keyboard.
Production notes
Gemini Rue began as a student project from Nuernberger at the University of California , initially under the name Boryokudan Rue . For the script, the author Nuernberger combined different ideas for game handling to create a multi-pronged storyline. The project won a young talent award at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco . At that time only author and graphic artist Nuernberger and composer Nathan Allen Pinard were involved. Nuernberger used the AGS engine to create the game. After signing a marketing contract with Wadjet Eye Games, the company organized voice recordings as well as minor technical and graphic revisions. Wadjet Eye released the game worldwide as a downloadable version; In Germany, Daedalic Entertainment also published a real version for retailers, newly set to music in German. In 2013, Wadjet Eye released a version for mobile devices with the Android and iOS operating systems .
Developer comments are integrated in the game, which can optionally be switched on and listened to during the course of the game. Joshua Nuernberger speaks there about individual game elements and their development. Outtakes of the English voice output are also included. Chatroom and La Croix Pan are included in the package as bonus games .
reception
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From 24 aggregated ratings, Gemini Rue achieved a score of 82 on Metacritic .
Gemini Rue has received mostly positive reviews from the critics. For the German press, the average rating from critify.de can be used, which is 79%.
The specialist magazine Adventure-Treff praised the “very exciting story with philosophical and socially critical approaches”, as well as the setting and the atmosphere of the game. The “old-fashioned graphics” and minor technical inadequacies were criticized. The magazine pointed out that Gemini Rue "gets along without excessive dialogues and artificial puzzles" and that its content makes people think.
Awards
Still under the name Boryokudan Rue , the game won the Student Showcase Award at the Independent Games Festival 2010 . The trade magazine Adventure Gamers placed Gemini Rue in 2011 in its list of Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games at number 79.
Web links
- Wadjet Eye Games Official Website
- Gemini Rue at MobyGames (English)
- Interview with Joshua Nuernberger on PCGameReviewsandNews.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b GDConf.com: 2010 IGF Reveals Student Showcase Winners. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ AlternativeMagazineOnline.co.uk: Interview: In Conversation With Joshua Nuernberger (Creator Of Gemini Rue). Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Adventure-Treff.de: Test: Gemini Rue. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Gamestar.de: Gemini Rue. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Gemini Rue. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ ratings of Gemini Rue on critify.de
- ↑ AdventureGamers.com: Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games. Retrieved January 16, 2016 .