Shardlight review: A post-apocalyptic adventure dripping with mysteryCan Shardlight feed my obsession with post-apocalyptic fiction or will it simply fall flat?
From a pretty young age, post-apocalyptic fiction has been a personal favorite of mine. Whether it's live theater, films, books, or video games, there's just something about the barren wastelands, abandoned buildings, and the dangerous people who are attempting to survive the destroyed worlds that appeal to the "what if" side of my brain.
Since I have had good luck with sci-fi point-and-click adventure games in the past I downloaded Shardlight in the hopes that the post-apocalyptic nature of the story would hold up its end of the bargain.
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Story & Setting
At its very core, Shardlight's story is vintage post-apocalyptic. A catastrophic event — good old-fashioned nuclear war in this case — has drastically changed life forever and surviving in the world is downright difficult.
In Shardlight there are two classes of people, the Aristocrats who are in c...
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Shardlight review: A post-apocalyptic adventure dripping with mystery