![]() ![]() The puzzles can barely be called such, as only twice in the entire six-hour run did I ever actually have to stop and think about what I was supposed to do. You’ll spend most of your time interacting with puzzle elements and navigating areas, along with picking up a gun or axe once or twice. The entire game operates in first-person, intending to give you an experience that I’m sure you might find plastered all over with buzzwords such as “immersive” and “realistic.” Master Reboot is, in fact, neither of these things. Comparing that to cutscenes that look like DeviantArt fodder isn’t exactly setting the bar high, and yet the transition between the two continues to be jarring every time. The actual game itself doesn’t look much better, with low-res polygonal structures that mostly look straight out of a PS1 game. When you complete a level, you get a sort of storybook retelling of the actual memory the level is tied to, told by animations that look like they were made by a 16 year-old on Newgrounds. Each memory presents a puzzle in a unique environment, and each is in some way plagued by the seemingly murderous intentions of Seren. The setup is this: you play as a new arrival in the Dream Cloud, wandering through the memories of someone who might be you, or might be someone else altogether. But things in digital dreamspace aren’t as peaceful as one would hope. ![]() This entire operation is overseen by Seren.exe, a master program that keeps things running smoothly in the Cloud. Friends and loved ones can visit residents of the Soul Cloud, and leave them small mementos to discover as they wander through their personal, digital past. The Soul Cloud lets users upload themselves to a virtual universe post-mortem, where they can relive their memories for eternity. Master Reboot puts you in a near-future world dominated by a worldwide phenomenon called the Soul Cloud. What I’m getting at here is that the game isn’t good. I cry for this game like one cries not for a lost loved one, but for one who has gone from success and fame to smoking crack in an alley every night. Master Reboot marks itself as the first game to ever generate that sort of reaction out of me. That can generate its own kind of rage, to be sure, but I’m talking about the kind of game so maddeningly disappointing and confusing that it brings you to tears out of pure befuddlement and anguish. That’s all fine and dandy, but what about a game that brings forth a different kind of tears? What about tears of utter frustration? And I don’t mean frustration due to a clever, tricky puzzle over which you have slaved for hours without respite. We’ve all been there, with a game completely and utterly emotionally compromising us, leaving us deeply impacted by what we’ve seen, and been a part of. I certainly became affected to tears by a couple moments in last year’s Gone Home, and felt myself racked by hollow, tearless sobs as the credits rolled at the end of the first season of Telltale’s Walking Dead. I’m sure we’ve all had one or two video games that have made us cry. Get prepared for upload.Where am I?.Who am I?.It's time to piece your life.and death back together.Deleting Me Softly – Master Reboot is occasionally pretty, never successfully scary, and consistently disappointing. The game features a distinctive visual style, intriguing story-line, psychological adventure-game action and a dynamic atmospheric soundtrack. To house your Soul, a family member (or you before you die) must purchase an island on the Soul Cloud where the server will generate rooms, houses or skyscrapers that hold each and every memory from the deceased’s past. The Soul Cloud is filled with floating islands, each island looks like a town, village or city filled with rooms, skyscrapers and houses that hold people’s memories. In the not-too-distant future exists the Soul Cloud, a giant server that holds the data of your soul and your memories when you die. It's an exploration game with action and puzzle elements set across 34 unique environments. Master Reboot is a haunting first person sci-fi adventure game set inside the Soul Cloud. The Soul Cloud - saving your past to secure your future. All these memories saved for your digital soul for your family to revisit again and again. That favorite holiday, happy moments from your childhood, meeting that special someone for the first time. Upload your soul to our dedicated servers and relax knowing that a part of you will live on for eternity. ![]() Imagine a world where death is no longer final, where precious memories are saved to enjoy forever, where your soul is immortal, welcome to the Soul Cloud. ![]()
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