SHORT SUMMARY
You are Agent 180, an international man/woman/person of mystery working for a spy agency. Working your first field mission since a personal tragedy occured, you are suddenly reassigned to investigate the suspicious death of a one-time informer. The dead man worked for a secretive biotech company, one who is just about to release a new product. The more you look into the situation, the more it seems that darker forces are working behind the scenes.
EXTRA STUFF
Are there romances in this game?/Who are the romances?
Cāmon, I know youāre thinking it
Vicki Valdez (female, pan/bisexual) (this-game romance)
Vicki is a reporter, chasing a story in the same company that youāre investigating. Sheās ambitious and determined to get to the truth - but will she be a help or a hinderance to your own investigation?
Gareth Li (male, pan/bi) (this-game)
Gareth works in the companyās PR department and is the press liason for the companyās new launch. Heās cheerful, friendly and deeply devoted to his employer
Hex Hanson (non-binary, pan/bi) (this game)
Hex is a scientist at the company - theyāre also the child of the CEO and founder, Hercules Hanson. Hex is a feisty young genius.
Angel
Well, on the pros side, Angelās attractive, adventurous and endlessly confident. On the cons side, theyāre vicious, manipulative, morally bankrupt, and work for your worst enemy. The MC may like what they see, but appearances are so very deceptive.
Content warnings
This game will contain moderate violence of a somewhat stylised/action-movie type, and mild sexual innuendo.
If you pick āhandā as the trauma background, there will be a vaguely-described torture scene and discussion of lingering trauma.
Honestly, I loved Angel Eyes and Iāve been excited for more ever since I played it so Iām already won over. I also love the idea of our MC being truamtized and that we can pick what happened to them. I agree that total blank states can be boring, and giving the MC more personality makes them really feel like they are part of the world.
Also I think I love Agent 100 so if I canāt have a love-hate-sexual tension relationship with Angel can Agent 100 at least be pan? Please? Agent 313 is also pretty cute, itās pretty endearing that theyāre so nervous about their first big mission.
I like the simple way stats are set up. I always find that having a million stats to keep track of can be more hassle than itās worth. I would like to know if we can ride the middle for some of them (like emotional and composed) or if it would be best to pick a side and stay with it.
Sort of! Chapter One of this is a reworked version of Angel Eyes, which is a short story I put on the forums several months ago. Chapter Two onwards is entirely new
Ok, to be more clear; if you want an actual romantic romance then Angel is not the one to go for. You can get them to respect you, you can get them to kind of value having you around, but nothingās ever going to be unconditional because thatās not how Angel works.
Hey! I love your other project, as Iām not sure Iāve mentioned so when I saw you had smth else up, I was excited :~) I like this a lot, as it stands, but smth that bothered me was that we are purportedly fairly seasoned, but still chose to trust Angel? Whom youāve known for all of a day (I think?) and works for the crook youāre trying to sniff out? Because they seemed believably distressed? IDK, that was smth tht spoiled immersion for me, and seemed unlikely. We should have been way more suspicious of any such character, TBH (unless we are, for whatever reason, hugely desperate, which wasnāt communicated).
I mean, youāve got a point. I had a thought that 180 probably did a quick background check on Crystal/Jet/Jasper and they seemed to check out obviously faked by DIABLO though) But to a certain extent itās necessary - Iām not sure how it would turn out if 180 could target the right suspect.
With emotional/composed there might be benefits to keeping in the middle. Thereās some benefits ti either side of the scale, but also drawbacks - at the extremes it turns into emotional outbursts vs repressed.
With the other opposing stats, choosing a side is a better idea.
Really love this so far. The writing is clear and straightforward with quite a few gems, like āMost of what she tells you is lies. Most of what you tell her is lies. Itās all very pleasant.ā or the Proust part
The characterisation of the MC is also done really well, I think, giving a variety of choices that allows for personalisation.
Did anything seem confusing or disjointed at any point?
Seems reasonably paced as far as action stories go. The debrief, however, was rather sudden - and then after such a busy night the MC considers R&R but ultimately chooses to go the training room? Seemed a bit too fast-paced there,
Just out of curiosity, how technical is it going to get? The gadgets are always interesting in any spy story, and it sounds like thereās a lot of potential for that here, especially with the biotech aspects as well.
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Passport, visa, driving licence, plane ticket, all under Alexs name.
Average height and build, aged around thirty, with black hair is drawn back in cornrows.
Good point. Maybe Iāll think about beefing up thay section with a choice of what to do (considering 180 got sucker punched and drugged, a visit to a medic may not be amiss)
I should say right now that any gadgetry is going to be based more on Rule of Cool than actual scientific plausibility hence the x-ray glasses.
Yes! Donāt worry. Iāll get back to Awoken when this is done.
I only have a couple minutes, so I will update this post when Iām able to spend more time writing about how amazing this demo is, because itās outstandingly good. Donāt get me wrong, but I have a question to ask about Agent 100. Itās stated that heās mid to late 50s, butā¦I feel like from a practical standpoint, that might be pushing it a bit? Is it possible to bring him down to his 40s instead? Heād still be on the older side, but at the same time itās still very believable that he can be a physically competent and active field agent.
The thing is that 100 being 50+ is kind of important to his character arc. You will find out later that he is kind of flagging, he is on the verge of retiring or getting moved into a less physically demanding role (probably would have been already if he wasnāt a legend). And obviously he kind of has Issues about that, and that wouldnāt be the same if he was 40ish.
Seemed a bit too fast-paced there,
hence the x-ray glasses.
