Vasquez mentions Hyperion wants Rhys's body because of "something floating around in his head." Jack then interferes, and enhances Rhys' ECHO eye, allowing him to hack either Vasquez's gun or his car, which Rhys uses to incapacitate Vasquez temporarily. Vasquez intends to kill both of them for treason, and reveals that he gave Vaughn the same deal he offered Rhys, and Vaughn accepted. Another moonshot, presumably sent by Yvette, heads towards the group, but is quickly revealed to actually contain Vasquez and his car. If Vaughn learns about it, they discuss what Hyperion would do if they found out Rhys had their dead CEO implanted in his brain. Handsome Jack suddenly reappears, and Rhys has the option of telling Vaughn about him or pretending he's just talking to himself. Yvette then contacts them, promising to send supplies but warning that she cannot do much about Vasquez trying to kill them. Rhys tricks the Rakk Hive into taking a moonshot on its back, instantly killing it, but ends up being forced out of the caravan along with Vaughn.Īfter waking up, Vaughn starts talking about how exciting this new Pandoran life is compared to corporate Hyperion, which Rhys can either support or brush off. The chaos awakens a nearby Rakk Hive, who gives chase and damages the caravan nearly beyond repair. Confused, he tries to choke Rhys to death to see if he really is non-corporeal, only for Rhys to hit his head on a piece of rebar, whereupon Jack disappears and Rhys falls off, landing on a computer monitor.Īfter recovering, the group sees moonshots being shot from Helios, and try to escape in the caravan to Hollow Point. Realizing Rhys is a Hyperion employee, Jack leads him away from the group, where he soon learns of his death at the Vault and his new status as an AI. Rhys takes over, pointing out that it wasn't that much blood.Īs the player saw, after activating the Gortys core, an AI of Handsome Jack appeared. Upon realizing that Pollux was alive the whole time they were scooping out his eye, Rhys suddenly screams from the level above and falls off a ledge, splattering blood everywhere. After using the eye on the scanner, two videos play: one with Athena the Gladiator after massacring the Atlas base in Old Haven vowing to kill Pollux and mentioning the Gortys Project, and another of the general himself telling whoever watches his log that he is putting himself in suspended animation while Athena is a threat. Realizing they cannot pull him out of the coffin to the scanner, Fiona is forced to scoop his eyeball out with a spork (and in the process ruining his other eye). They find Pollux in a nearby coffin, supposedly long-dead. Tampering with core activates a nearby computer, which can only be accessed using an eye-scan of Atlas General Pollux. The rest try to figure out what to do with the core, but when Sasha touches it it falls to the ground, and they are unable to put it back together as Rhys's piece is still encoded to him. After spitting on and punching Rhys in the neck, Fiona continues the story.Īfter activating the Gortys core, Rhys suddenly starts acting strangely and runs away from the group. In the present day, Rhys and Fiona have fallen asleep against each other's backs, only to be woken up by the Kidnapper, who unties them and starts leading them to an unknown destination. While Rhys tries to escape from Handsome Jack's shadow, the group attempts to learn more about the Gortys Project while being hunted by both Hyperion and the vengeful August. The fighting game reference is cute the first time, but it overstays its welcome really fast.Following the Gortys Project to a top secret Vault, Rhys and Fiona must steal some supplies from an abandoned Atlas factory. They were also so easy I think I got hit once in one of these fights in the entire series. The characters start making a big deal about these little figurines you can find, and when you battle with them, it just throws a bunch of QTEs at you and calls it a day. Even the slightest bit of transparency, like something as simple as a story tree at the end of each episode a la Detroit: Become Human would have been to their benefit here.Įveryone’s favorite, the quick time events, really take center stage on this one - especially when you factor in the new mini-game. But hiding big choices from the player and not clearly coding how those choices were paying off made New Tales from the Borderlands feel really on rails, even if my playthrough would have looked completely different to someone else’s. Sure, in theory, I could have been more immersed if the story was well written and the choices were compelling.
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