![]() ![]() The inhuman way Gavin refers to his brother is almost anachronistically backward. He discusses his brother’s autism-or, “autistic mind” as Gavin (and the writers of Overlord) seems to think is a completely normal way to refer to autism-as a boon to his work with the Geth. Gavin Archer’s research logs in Atlas Station mince no words. When you get to Atlas Station, you finally see the truth of Project Overlord.ĭr. At one point, you find a log of one of the dead scientists asking, what does the VI want? It keeps screaming at us-nobody understands! His voxelated face appears and screams an unintelligible sound reminiscent of a Gen 1 Pokémon call being run through a blender. The whole time, you’re followed by a digital aspect of David. You see dozens of bodies strewn across the floors as you fight the various infected Geth and security robots David used to kill the scientists. Over the course of the next one or two hours, you play through a series of missions across Aite in order to unlock access to Atlas Station, the portion of the facility in which David has barricaded himself. Shepard’s dedication to fighting the Reapers is part of what led her to join forces with Cerberus to begin with. Cerberus was hoping to find a way to control the Geth, a race of artificially intelligent machines which are extremely hostile and have aligned themselves with the series’ ultimate villain: the Reapers, ancient and powerful machines bent on destroying all intelligent life in the galaxy. In Overlord, Commander Shepard heads to the planet Aite, where the human-supremacist group Cerberus had set up a scientific research station. The lack of consideration around Overlord, both then and now, shows just how lightly people take its harms. Conversely, there has been no discussion of the content of Overlord, the implication being that when BioWare reconsidered Mass Effect 2, the shots of women’s backsides registered as too embarrassing to keep in the game, but the horrible messages of Overlord didn’t. ![]() ![]() The project director acknowledged that “ a lot of things have evolved” to cause that change. The original game had an infamously leering male gaze toward the bodies of its female characters, and the Legendary Edition has made changes to address that. It’s set to be released as part of the Legendary Edition, without revision, which is a definite choice. It's a story where an autistic character is turned into a prop in the story of a supposedly sympathetic abuser, and becomes mostly interested in the abuser’s feelings and experience. None of these reviews remotely resemble any sentiment I’d choose.īecause Overlord is a story about autism, one that clearly regards itself as sympathetic and sensitive to how autistic people are often treated, but the way that it unfolds turns it into a careless and obliviously prejudiced story. The first time I played it, I nearly threw up. ![]()
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