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Controlling him is like playing Kevlar Fist – a man’s wheelless car whose favorite phrase is “shout if you die.” You can shape some of his personality with custom responses to team questions, but answering any even vague politeness seems like a betrayal. The main character, Dan Marshall, is one of the biggest idiots in the gaming world. I also have a special place in my heart for the actors of “Dual Domain”. For example, the section on the elevated monorail is exhilarating, even if it’s just an express corridor with windows. The problem is, most of these diversions aren’t as fun as dashing into cover and smashing metal enemies with machine guns, but sometimes it blows up. For example, I would never have believed that my team circled a car factory in a small pod like armed revelers on an unfurnished ghost train, but it does exist. There’s a lot more variety here than I believe my brain can remember accurately. You can even ride a jet ski from the sewers, like Terminator and Police Academy 3 had sex and made a fixture. In a futuristic marijuana farm, you have to fight poison gas and security robots and shoot shit you can’t see when your suffocating teammates yell at you. Having turret sections isn’t enough they have to happen during boss fights, and also contain cumbersome reloading mechanics and buggy NPC interactions.

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It’s like a TV trope page for a third-person shooter. But instead of offering unnecessary ice pack spread, Binary Domain sticks with hateful boss fights and broken squad comms.

This made me realize the only thing wrong with the binary field is that it’s trying to do too much, fussing like an anxious priest is about to meet the head of the Women’s Institute. Most standard enemies are rightly slow and goofy, just agile enough to make you feel good about yourself when you blast their shiny metal heads.

It’s awesome to see gleaming scrap metal shards fly off your robotic enemies. If Zeus cursed me to shoot olive robots in New Tokyo for the rest of the time, just for the arrival of new enemy ships at the end of each level, I’d pretend to be sad, so he didn’t find a sadder punishment.īinary Domain’s base game is very satisfying - a burly, competent cover shooter with an infectious central game loop. In fact, the rock elements in the binary field are simply magnificent. I remember a game that scored 70%, lost 5 points on repeat, lost another 10 on bad boss fights, and in hindsight it was a ridiculous cult classic. Hallucinations because of my vague memory of Binary Domain, like something in a Michel Gondry music video. This may not be a problem that plagues classical scholars, but it is relevant here. But what if, let’s assume, Sisyphus secretly likes the Rolling Stones? What if Rolling Stones, no matter how repetitive, was as fun as shooting robots in Binary Domain? What about Zeus? Every time he reached the top, the rock would roll down and Sisyphus would start all over again. He was the lad who cheated death twice in Greek mythology, so Zeus, the king of the gods, and the occasional horny swan cursed him to roll a big rock up a mountain forever and ever.

Have you heard of Sisyphus? I bet you have.

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