Regarding your discussion of themes, yes, it would fit the theme of the title if these characters "displayed backbone" (particularly Howard ha-ha not actually funny), but every story has a theme including incomplete or badly-written ones. So it's been a few generations but we're not talking a thousand years or anything like that. Also, the Science Center is actually the Hotel Vancouver, both on basis of the building's unique design and its unique Pegasus gargoyle, which is also a well-known Vancouver landmark. These may have been refurbished, of course. It actually runs on the downtown-wide steam-heating distribution system, meaning that and the plant which supplies it must be intact. I'm figuring it's a century or so since the bombs dropped, being as that the Steam Clock was built in 1977 and is a Vancouver heritage site. It just doesn't follow a traditional story structure. Again I am not here to say whether it is good or bad but to just point out that a lot of reviews seem to misunderstand that.īy all means critique the game for being too short, for the genre shifts, for writing or characters or game mechanics but just because the story is short does not make it incomplete. While the game is very short and withholds a lot of details from the perspective that it details a point where three different people all showed backbone, so to speak, it does tell a complete story. Women and "lesser" Kind alike are being trampled on and everyone is told that beyond the wall is nothing but death so they should lead safe and comfortable lives under the thumb of the Apes. While she was pursuing Clarissa and the Apes on her personal time the message on her corkboard about the chapter implies that she isn't fully committed to uncovering the truth and that comes into play in the final conversation she has with her boss.įor Clarissa it's a bit more of a stretch and IF you believe her final talk with Renee it is about standing up for all the Kind against their current hierarchies. She wanted to do rabble rousing and really make a difference but the failure of her first book made her fall into safe and secure work. There are frequent dialogue options where you can try to just run away from the problem but he keeps dragging himself back into place to try and make a difference.įor Renee she was always on the fence. You primarily follow Howard, a self-professed coward who chose to do low-key work like track cheating spouses rather then actually commit his skills to the police force or apply in any other way. You have three characters that have all made choices out of fear and comfort all deciding to stand up for themselves. Short Story: The key to understanding this game, in my opinion, is the title itself: Backbone.
In one of the dialogues it mentions that the war/wall were a few generations past but that might also just be a common myth, each generation being told it was just a little while ago when it may have been thousands of years.
Judging by the condition outside the wall and the ruined cities, humanity blew itself up somehow although the wars might have been more recent. You see a human skull in the biochem lab and he talks about it as if it is some ancient ancestor which combined with the artifact makes me think that all the Kind are actually what is left of humanity. Origins: It is implied that all the animal species are either mutations of humans or animals that humans experimented on. This isn't meant to defend the ending but to help put it into context.
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