While I normally don’t have a huge issue with this, it was particularly jarring when an object would do that and continually make a clacking noise until it was dislodged. Hell, a couple of areas looked ripped right out of Mirror’s Edge, down to the white walls and red piping. If I’ve sold you on the game based on the last couple of paragraphs, hold your horses, there’s some definite flaws in the game as well. How can I end your lives? Let me count the ways. Gemini is at its absolute best when it gives you a few enemies to deal with at once and makes you get creative. The enemy encounters are rather well designed, giving you plenty of room to flee if the going gets tough and lots of objects and environmental hazards (like giant fans to fling them into!) to wreck anyone who dares slow you down. Cassandra’s health and abilities recharge quickly and you’ll rarely find yourself overwhelmed. You’ll find plenty of room for experimentation and error, as you’re almost never in any real danger of dying. The possibilities are vast and, I suspect, the more of a jerk you are, the more interesting ways you’ll find to take down all that would stand in your way. Or letting an enemy shoot at me, slow down time, run behind him and grab him with telekinesis, and run him straight through with his own bullets. I found myself screwing with groups of enemies, trying to lure them into a cluster by jumping between timelines and then seeing how many I could knock out at once with a large object. Being able to grab something in one timeline, open up a time peek portal, set yourself up for a clear shot, and transport back to the other timeline to clobber an enemy with a filing cabinet is fun, but as you unlock more abilities and get more proficient with them, Cassandra can really cause some havoc if you get creative. She’s able to mow them down easily enough with whatever is laying around as it is. Really, it’s almost unfair to the soldiers that try to stop her. She also becomes able to slow down time, stop and throw back projectiles, and her abilities grow, being able to lift and hurl heavier objects and being able to slow down time longer. Cassandra’s first ability makes for some mildly interesting traversal puzzle solving, but it only gets more interesting from there.Ĭassandra finds a formula lying around on a table and then literally injects herself with telekinetic powers (interestingly enough, much later on you come across a virus vial that counts as one of the collectibles and she comments that she’s not sure why she picked up a vial with a virus and proceeds to put it down with the vocal cue of handling weapon-grade plutonium). You can also “time peek,” which is opening a globby looking portal to see into the timeline that you’re not currently in. You can transport yourself to either timeline at will, barring any obstruction in your current space. Well, two time periods specifically – the present and a few years into the past when the facility was less abandoned (and considerably less rundown) than it is now. We’re totally just buddies, right?”ĭuring his abduction, Cassandra has an awakening of sorts and finds herself with an ability to maneuver through time ( Life is Strange, much?). “Sure, friend, just take my expensive smartglasses I just got. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear Gemini started off on some storyboard as a JRPG. Alex gives you some glasses that serve as your HUD and promptly gets captured by guards that shouldn’t be there (abandoned facility, remember?). They get a bit of a way into the facility and things start to go wrong. She’s also been in an accident and has amnesia. Cassandra and Alex may have been something more at one point. He’s helping her find information about her family. Gemini starts off with you, as Cassandra, sneaking into an abandoned facility with her friend, Alex. This might be one of the few times I’ve volunteered for something like this and turned out more than pleasantly surprised. No meddlesome fandom getting in my way to color my opinion one way or the other would be the best way to approach this without getting bogged down by previously established lore or anything of the sort. I couldn’t imagine it would make any sense for me to review this game without any context for it, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought that maybe that’s exactly why I should take a stab at it. I’ve never watched a minute of the new season, never mind the initial run of the series a few years ago. When I got the notice that Gemini: Heroes Reborn was up for review for Pop Culture Beast, I initially let it slide. Platforms: Playstation 4, PC, and Xbox One (reviewed)
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