The Supervisor Director will tell you to occasionally check in on AD to provide some dreamers counseling, which leads to a simple Simon Says-style minigame, but I still enjoyed seeing how all these murders are affecting the psyche of the citizens. Astrum Close is a fascinating setting, and you interact more with Augmented Dreaming here as something of a side quest. The voice acting and writing are still pretty amateur, but I’m still on the edge of my seat to see what happens. I don’t want to spoil what happens here, so I’m trying to be vague while conveying my thoughts, because the plot really goes places in this episode. It’s a fun investigation and lets you put it all together on your own, the game’s best trait, but it ends up leaving a sour taste. Sure we learned one interesting fact, but I just spent the last hour or so connecting dots that don’t actually matter anymore. This does lead to casting possible suspicion on certain other characters for the main mystery, but right after you solve the murder and go through an entire trial, you just go back in time to prevent the murder from happening. Your primary investigation in this episode is into the murder of that woman who killed you several times in the first episode. That pace is mostly a boon, but it does result in some unsatisfying narrative beats in the middle. It’s a lot of fun and, though it is followed by a somewhat frustrating action sequence, sets the tone for what is a much faster paced and more involved experience. While the first episode was very slow, episode 2 jumps right into the action with some extended puzzles where you need to work together with an NPC by waving at them to safely traverse an underground facility. There weren’t many puzzles, but what was there contained a novel use of VR capped off with a tense trial scene in which you finally put all the evidence together. Hal, along with his stalwart assistant Lily, dive ever deeper into the mystery, which may just reveal some uncomfortable truths about Hal’s past and the city’s present.ĭespite some issues, I enjoyed Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate Episode 1 as a sci-fi visual novel in VR. After initially pinning the murder on Systelia, a robotic puppet controlled by an unknown party, he discovers that the doll is actually inhabited by his friend and roommate currently in a coma, Maia. The naive belief that violence is a part of human nature – which can easily be reformed – also ignores how oppression operates on a systematic level.Hal Scion’s investigation into the murder of professor Rumford continues as the city of Astrum Close continues to descend into unreality. To suggest that, after spending time together in a jail cell, Godse would go as far as saving Gandhi from another assassination attempt ludicrously undermines the frightening persistence of the ideology at stake. While the film does challenge Godse’s Islamophobia and raise questions about Gandhi’s celibacy, it also flattens their contrasting political positions into a mere difference of temperament that could be solved through dialogue. Deepak Antani’s Gandhi and Chinmay Mandlekar’s Godse do share a startling resemblance with the real historical figures, but their characterisation in this fanciful piece of fiction lacks any real conviction. Such a premise is already attracting its share of controversy: with the rise of Hindutva-inspired violence, many fear that the film is yet another attempt to reclaim Godse’s image as a patriot.ĭespite being surrounded by such fervent discourse, Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh is, at the end of the day, a mediocre effort. Reimagining an alternative reality where Gandhi survives the attack, Rajkumar Santoshi’s latest film purports to offer an unbiased debate of the conflicting ideologies between the non-violence advocate and his killer. O n 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi’s murder at the hands of Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse sent shockwaves through the still nascent democracy of India.
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