Day 13: Conspiracy Theory Meme image of me explaining my weird theories about the SciFi narrative game Heaven’s Vault and Borderlands 3. I’ve tried to keep this vague to avoid actual plot spoilers, but there are lore spoilers in the image so don’t look too hard. ;)
Also, I know I go on about this but … please, Heaven’s Vault is so good. It’s good in ways that are very hard to explain without spoiling the rich lore and history that you uncover. If you could somehow crush BL and HV together so that I could explore the past of the Borderlands universe just as HV reveals itself (through words, traces, paths, and tragedies) I would be in SciFi narrative gaming heaven.
Just a follow-on from my last post, because I’m serious… anyone who enjoyed the dialogue-rich narrative in Tales, and loves Scifi with deeply-written lore should check out Heaven’s Vault. I have no links to the game or anything, I just love it, and feel it’s criminally under-exposed. It’s my game of the year.
PLEASE GO TO SPACE WITH HER!
Honestly, the trailers don’t give a true feel for Aliya’s character. Stubborn, abrasive, playful, sometimes bitter, often rude, driven by a near-foolhardy hunger to know. The story of AI within this universe is fascinating too, and without wishing to spoil anything it really complemented my playthrough of BL3. Then there’s way the lore of the Nebula is uncovered, piece by piece as you sift the places and fragments of the past: Sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes laden with dread. If I could have a Borderlands lore game that played like this I would cry.