Actually, the last problem could have been rectified fairly easily Anna is Miller’s daughter, and all that the game needed as justification would have been for Miller to shout at her for a bit, saying how important she is. That’s right, Miller, introduce her as “my best sniper” and leave her behind on the most vital of missions. If it was supposed to be a tender moment, it failed utterly and completely.Īnd then, when you’re leaving to protect D6, you see her left behind on the train platform. She calls you “rabbit,” meaning it contemptuously, for goodness sake! And then, after just one mission mostly spent running after the Dark One and failing to catch it, she decides you’re an ok guy? They couldn’t have been less subtle if they’d just set up a sign pointing at her and saying, “Look! Tasty woman right here!” Don’t get me wrong, she was perfectly attractive - in a Russian sort of way - but she wasn’t a person at all, just an object you’re supposed to care about in order to “raise the stakes.” When you have sex with her near the end, it means absolutely nothing. Actually, this one started going bad far earlier than the end It was so painfully obvious from the beginning that they were just setting you up for a romance with this woman. The shoehorned romance of Anna, the stilted showdown of the leaders at Polis, and the ending oh, that ending… Every single part of it put a bad taste in my mouth everything just seemed rushed. That isn’t to say it was completely terrible, but by comparison to what came before it, the last third of the game was a big letdown. As I said last time, I finished the game in three sittings, and the third sitting was by far the worst of those three. However, you can see plainly that the game suffered badly from THQ’s bankruptcy. The acquisition was certainly a good thing it allowed the game to come out.

The game studios were acquired by various other publishers 4A Games, in particular, was acquired by Deep Silver (Koch Media). However, they needed to pay back their angry moneylenders, so they decided to sell off their studios and recoup what they could. For a while, it looked doubtful that many of their announced games, Last Light included, would come out. Even if they did make bad decisions, good things were still coming from them for every Homefront, there was a Darksiders, and more good things were just around the corner. Like I said, I don’t really know the whole story. Certainly, there were really bad decisions involved on THQ’s part maybe they had even deserved it. This was a huge loss for gamers everywhere. December of 2013 will forever be known as the month THQ fell. They managed to push out Saint’s Row 3 just in time, but it wasn’t enough. It seems to have been combination of a bunch of factors you can’t point to one single thing and say “This, this is what caused them to file for bankruptcy.” Their leadership was not good enough. The only articles are ones about the settlement that’s been reached recently, or the big news of the bankruptcy filing itself. I don’t think it’s just me that feels this way even doing a bit of research for this article, it’s very hard to tell what even happened in the months leading up to their closure.

It was a big shock to me that such a large publisher fell. To be honest, when the news came out, I had no idea what caused THQ to go under. The game was announced, hype started to build - and then everything folded. Seeing this, THQ, the publisher, ordered another one of the same from A4 games. It was a great game, if a little rough, and many critics praised it. The first game, Metro 2033, sold pretty well. However, I didn’t talk about the unfortunate development problems surrounding the game. I already covered the basic premise of Last Light in the first post. As before, if you don’t like spoilers, don’t read. In this one, I’m going to talk about the ending, which had a lot more wrong than right with it. You can read part 1 here, where I discuss the atmosphere and level design. Unfortunately, in this post, it’s mainly what I didn’t like. It was so good in so many places, but it still had many unfortunate flaws thus, here I am rambling on about what I liked and didn’t like. I finished the game several days ago on hardcore difficulty, and I couldn’t get it out of my head. In this series, I’m discussing Metro: Last Light. Metro: Last Light - The Ending Aug 5, 2013

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