The Message from Deep Space

very good. It can get a bit dry at times but it's quite rewarding!

Lots of geometry. I hate geometry. I power through because the game keeps giving me cool crumbles of discovery here and there. Like a desiccated raccoon scrounging for morsels of leftovers in a sanitized suburb, I feel like I'm not welcome. But I find sustenance occasionally.

math

I am a graduate student in theoretical chemistry. The game does have some genuinely creative concepts, but it doesn’t adhere all that closely to the mathematics and science it draws on. As someone in the field, there were quite a few moments that honestly got on my nerves. For example, if Bautista had arbitrarily performed the recalibration for us in advance, that would imply that he had been communicating with them much earlier than we had. Hiding that fact from us would essentially amount to a research ethics violation—he would have been withholding relevant data. Or there’s the fact that, at some point, all fractional values somehow start being represented in a way that conveniently assumes our base-10 number system, simply because that’s what our UI uses... I understand that maintaining perfect scientific and mathematical accuracy throughout the game may have been difficult. Still, given how heavily the game sells itself on this particular concept, I found the execution rather disappointing compared with what I had expected.

It makes doing maths fun! Also I live with and am a scientist so bonus points for making me feel smart.

I'm enjoying the game a lot, and so I can't leave a "No" review.... but MY GOODNESS your coworkers' dialogue in this game is annoying!! I've never wished that game characters would just SHUT UP so much before in my life. I've never fantasized about killing game characters before. I've never minimized a game while I'm playing it so that I could come and write a review about how much I hate the characters' dialogue before in my life.

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