Her companion quest involves building up her courage to ask someone out on a date. A standout is Parvarti, an engineer who you meet early on. The story is pretty standard science fiction with a critique of capitalism, but the writing, dialogue choices, and characters elevate it.Ĭharacters are well written, particularly Phineas Welles and your prospective party members. Thanks to the amount of choice and player freedom, every playthrough can be very different, providing a good amount of replayability. Players will face several key decisions throughout a single playthrough, the crux of which involve either siding with the Halcyon Company - a corporate entity that controls most of the Halcyon star system - or with Phineas Welles - the aforementioned scientist whose goal involves bringing about the end of Halcyon's hegemony of the Colony through a revolution. It's decisions like these, along with their strong consequences, that make The Other Worlds shine. Going in one direction results in the end of one settlement and the continuation of the other. To repair your ship, you need to make a difficult decision: reroute power to either the town of Edgewater or to an offshoot settlement. After a somewhat straightforward character creator, you're sent to a planet called Terra 2 in the Halcyon Cluster where - after a brief tutorial - you're tasked with becoming the new captain of a grounded spaceship the aptly named The Unreliable. At the start of the game you're awoken from a frozen slumber by an enigmatic scientist named Phineas Welles. Obsidian's The Outer Worlds continues this upward trend in many ways and comfortably sits near the top of Obsidian's output, but some setbacks in certain areas blemish the overall package.Įarly on The Outer Worlds is fantastic. More recently, though, original titles like Pillars of Eternity prove they're capable of stepping out of the shadows to craft strong role playing experiences entirely of their own. By Chinh Tran, posted on 04 December 2019 / 2,962 Viewsįor years Obsidian Entertainment worked behind shadows of giants like BioWare and Bethesda, developing sequels and spin-offs to established properties like Neverwinter Nights and Fallout.
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