There is a wide range of personalities to discover in the robots encountered along Horatio’s journey. Truly, there are no weak points to be found in the entire voice cast. Crispin is the ideal sidekick, trading barbs and slinging veiled insults to strike a delicate counterpoint to his sire’s oftentimes dour demeanor. While the music and artwork intertwine to create a mournful tableau, the dialogue, particularly between Horatio and Crispin, manages to keep the bleak surroundings light enough to bear Horatio is voiced by Logan Cunningham (the voice of the narrator in Bastion, IGR’s top Indie Game in 2011) and his delivery is appropriately jaded and commanding. The courts or Metropol run about as well as everything else… Buddy Comedy Reboot Additional puzzles will reveal more about Horatio’s past and details of what fate befell mankind. Regardless of difficulty, all of the solutions make a great deal of sense within the context of the play, and none end up feeling tacked-on. Some puzzles will come unraveled easily, while others may induce some extended head-scratching. The point-and-click mechanics serve the story well, forcing the player to explore all aspects of the realm to find solutions to the various inevitable roadblocks. The beguiling ambient soundtrack underscores with somber, albeit arid tones with winsome quirkiness peaking in every so often to remind us of the somewhat whimsical tone that transports us through the desolation. Or maybe a the lost chapters of the Jawa. The robots themselves seem as though they are a cross between 1970’s British sci-fi with the dawn of the industrial revolution-era machinery. The choice to use a somewhat muddier palate serves the dominant aura of rust and decay, and gives a softer edge to realm ruled by machines than one might expect. Wadjet Eye has established itself as the new Sierra Online for graphical point-and-click adventures that emerged when “multimedia” was a huge selling point for PCs. The greatest of robots all fall from glory Remembering the Future Other robots insist that belief in any such creators is pure folly. These followers consider humankind to have been the most advanced of machines, and the builders of the first cycle of robots that now inhabit the wasteland the Earth has become. While all traces of mankind have vanished, some robots still cling to their reverence of the Gospel of Man. He constructed Crispin, thus his last name is Horatiobuilt. For example, Horatio Nullbuilt is unaware of his creator’s identity. The progeny of robot species continues via robots building their offspring, appending the name of the new robot with he who came before. Hallelujah,8,1Ĭreation in the face of decay is the prevalent theme in Primordia.

Though he can’t explain the reasoning, he knows he detests the very concept of this vast urban sprawl. When the power core is taken, Horatio surmises that a trip to Metropol will be necessary to retrieve it. Horatio’s memory is spotty at best, but he has maintained enough of his personality to create Crispin, the floating droid (who will at times offer up hints and comic relief).

Horatio Nullbuilt is determined to bring the Unniic, a dilapidated airship, back to a flight-ready state. What on earth took this guy down? Land of Sand, Unmanned Primordia is a bleak, and yet thoroughly engaging point-and-click trek through a crumbling post-humanity dystopia.

When Horatio and Crispin’s search for energy brings them to the dazzling city of Metropol, the simple quest to recover their stolen power core leads to unexpected discoveries about Horatio’s origins and a new understanding of the legendary humans who walked the earth before him. Horatio spends his days studying the Book of Man, sparring with his droid companion Crispin, and tinkering with the airship they call home - a peaceful existence that becomes threatened when a rogue robot steals the energy source that the pair needs to survive. Set in a post-apocalyptic world strewn with cast-off machines, Primordia tells the story of Horatio Nullbuilt, a stoic robot who values his solitude and independence.

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