Ansible

This 2018 game ‘Ansible’ unfortunately is no longer on the Steam store, after having been removed by request from the developer himself. In fact, it wasn’t on there long at all and received a whole 1 review (not counting this one) which was extremely scathing. The principal complaints being that some of the levels were too dark, causing needless vexation when being chased by hostiles especially in levels four and five. The inability to see a wall until your practically on top of it and the encumber some enemies as they surround you, making it nearly impossible to ever back track and re-navigate, causing numerous early game testers to rage quit and flame the developer. Also, tedious slow pacing movement and yawnful long paving level design was also a raised concern as you felt lost, wandering around clueless until your character hit the next invisible wall, dead end or impossible to see in passageway. A final cause of complaint was the accompanying price tag of $3.10 Australian dollar when in comparison to what one chalked up as an abysmal plague like experience. On the flip side, I actually enjoyed it for a number of reasons. Yes, it’s true that the developer needs to lighten up the majority of levels. Yes, it’s true that the developer needs to stop trying to pad the game play by crippling main movement to a snail pace. In fact, he should have done the opposite, brighten the whole thing up with strobe lights and made us zip around blasting everything like we were a teenage Duke Nuke’m. People play games to feel good about themselves. They want to be a bad ass. The game developer padded it to make the game longer, he claims it will take you 10 hours, when in fact even with the tedious slow movement I fully completed the game in less than an hour. The developer also claims that his inspiration comes from Resident Evil 4 (his game has zombies) and Dead Space (his game has giant spiders). He also claims that instead of hide and seek against enemies, the game tests you on movement and positioning, the later being true. However, what he fails to take into consideration. Is that unlike his game, never in Resident Evil 4 or Dead Space did you ever feel completely lost and it is this that makes his game nothing like them and more just another FPS maze running game. But as I said before there are a few things I applaud here. Generally speaking, the atmosphere is captivating in places. The particle system in the air and the sparks coming from the gun accompanied by the sound effects makes you feel like you’re brandishing a real weapon. The spiders look awesome even though they move clunkily around and the unique visual of the one-gun type being used for multiple styles of shooting is an interesting concept which I wish he had developed further. One of the biggest highlights for me was the lore behind the term ‘Ansible’. The term 'Ansible' was first coined by Author Ursala Le Guin who began her publishing career in 1959. Unfortunately, Ursala died in 2018 aged 88. Within that life span she wrote 12 novels and hundreds of short stories. In several of her novels starting with 'Rocannons World' published in 1966 she created what is known as the Hainish Cycle which was a fragmented league of alien races that had managed to unite against a common enemy by using a interstellar communication device known as the 'Ansible'. Coined from the word making one 'Answerable'. You see this device was used to establish trust among the variety of alien breeds all stemming from the Hain people by providing faster than light communication of which Alien races could instantly read thoughts. With no hidden agenda's being possible and the 'Ansible' revealing 'ALL' when it came to technology breakthroughs, it provided somewhat equal footing for all extra-terrestrials. That is until the 'Shing'. The 'Shing' are an alien race that have the unique power to be able to still lie even when in immediate mind speech. This advantage made them corrupt and that they could not be trusted as they began to overthrow various alien races. Early Earth settlements were actually placements from the Hain people who originally called this planet 'Terra'. Those colonists became estranged to their origin when the Hain civilisation collapsed due to constant attacks from the 'Shing'. Eventually an attempt was remade to reunite Earth when the league discovered that the Earth was using the constructed 'Ansible' again. Unbeknown to them, the early Hain settlement had powered down the Ansible before they were completely annihilated by the 'Shing'. Game seems to suggest that you have just powered the facility, the interstellar communication device for them again. The maze you’re running through is the large mass circuitry of this 'Ansible' device. In final, the term ‘Ansible’ means answerable, but as long as this Indian developer Philip Michael continues to be silent, I don’t have much faith that this potential new depiction of a famous novel franchise has a flying ‘Shing’ of a hope. I truly hope I’m wrong and that he uses this ‘Ansible’ once again to reunite the current 83 planets of the alliance with the humans in the Steam Store. Since it is no longer available, below is the complete game... 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