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Pyre: The Kotaku Review. Pyre is a sports game about starting a revolution.

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In a worse game, that would be a joke, but Pyre takes both its sports and its politics seriously and combines them in an unexpectedly compelling way. This new game is from Supergiant, the small studio behind the lauded Bastion and Transistor games. Their first was mostly a shooter, their second a strategic sci- fi adventure. The third is a religious sports game. Why not? In Pyre, you control a team of exiles called the Nightwings in the land of Downside, as they participate in a series of religious rites—a snappy, challenging three- on- three variant on basketball using an increasingly wide selection of characters. Early on, you play the rites as sports- based battled between long sections of narrative. Eventually, the game opens up and offers a twist that radically changes how you’ll play.

SPOILER WARNING: For several hours, Pyre hold back a major twist about how it plays. I am spoiling that in this review, since it greatly influenced my take on the game, as it dominates the final two thirds of action and is ultimately Pyre’s most important gameplay system. Review- reader beware!) It turns out the goal of the rites is to give an exile their freedom.

After a set number of rites, you’ll perform the Liberation Rite, and either a character from your team or from the opposing team will be able to return to the Commonwealth, the land from which they’ve been banished. Your goal is to send as many character as you can back to the Commonwealth in order to take down the oppressive system that banished them to Downside in the first place. This would be like playing a season of NBA 2. K and having to occasionally decide which of your star players to remove from the game. It deeply affects strategy and narrative. Most of your time in Pyre will be spent performing the rites. These rites feel like a successor to NBA Jam, if the famous arcade basketball game was set on unfolded pages of a giant book.

The matches are three- on- three and the goal is to drive a ball into your opponents’ pyre, eventually snuffing it out. On offense, you control whoever is holding the ball. On defense, you can freely swap players and use the halo surrounding your players to temporarily banish any opposing players from the field of play for a short amount of time. Enemy players try to banish your team members as well, but you can avoid their auras by sprinting, jumping, and in the case of some characters, flying over them. Games go fast, as each side’s players keep running, passing and shooting the ball.

It’s common to get into a tense stalemate or a stunning upset, and when you get good at this, it’s a thrill to play. Sometimes, after pulling off a tricky play, I found myself sighing with relief, or shaking out my tensed hands. The rites have an announcer called the Voice who narrates the action and tells a story around it.

He also talks shit. He’ll remind you when you’re falling behind, or when you’re crushing your enemies, or note when you’ve left your pyre wide open. Pathetic!” It helps that the Voice seems to loathe you, so when you win you’re not only defeating your opponents, but also this guy who can’t stop telling you how much you suck. As you play rites, the members of your team level up. You can arm them with better items called Talismans and help them learn new abilities called Masteries. Over the course of the game, you’ll also meet a few new characters and expand your roster. People who liked Bastion or Transistor probably weren’t expecting a sports game next, and even those who are into sports games might not know whether to be excited about one that is mostly meant to be played solo and that embeds its athletics into a complex story full of dialogue and religious intrigue.

So here’s a warning to all of those people and a heads up: this game is very good, but takes a long time to hit its stride. The first four or so hours of my playthrough were dedicated to the lengthy set up for the plot and characters, and I was only able to play rites after long exposition dumps. While I appreciate the details put into this world, there was a part of me that thought, “come on, let me get to the good shit already.” The good shit does eventually come, it just takes a while to get there. The game is also overly easy, initially. I breezed through the first four hours with a 9- 0 record, but I hit a losing streak I couldn’t shake until I started practicing how to counter certain types of characters and making sure my passing game was on point. As the game goes on, your opponents will also gain Talismans and Masteries, and if you’re not sharp they’ll wreck your shit.

Pyre’s story becomes more interesting the less the game explains and the more they allow you to just get fond of the characters, either through the rites or through learning about their pasts. As I played rites, I got attached to the particular characters that helped me win. Certain characters will also have plot beats trigger by facing the same opponent’s over and over. Rukey Greentail, a wise cracking talking dog, owes someone on the Dissidents a debt and through playing the rites against the Dissidents you can clear it for him. After the extended opening bits, the flow and point of the game changes to focus on the process of using the rites not just as a battle sport but to free the characters from bondage. Every time I sent a character home, I felt both pride and regret.

The characters can feel a bit thin at times—Ti’Zo, a winged imp, never really developed for me beyond “cute mascot character”—but saying goodbye to them is rough, and not just because you know you’ll never see them again. Often your best characters will be up for liberation, either because you feel like they deserve freedom or you know it’s the only way to win the Liberation Rite. When I sent home Rukey I missed the dynamic he brought to the Nightwings, and also I missed him on the court, where I’d used him to dunk on my opponents time and time again. As Pyre hurtles towards its conclusion, you learn more about the remaining characters in short, segments that resemble text- heavy twine games. Some of their tales of their lives and banishment will be more appealing than others.

I adored the character I named Xae. When you meet her, she can’t remember her name except that it rhymes with “gray,” and you’re given a list of options.

While it was tempting to name her Bae, I resisted. She’s a bit loopy, remarking that the gods of this world, The Eight Scribes, are speaking to her, but you learn that these tendencies had her cast out from her home as a child. She’s lived off the land ever since, barely surviving. She brought me to victory in the rites time and time again, and I knew I had to free her. For every Xae, you’ll meet a Sir Gilman, a wyrm knight whose obsession with honor I found more tedious than anything else.

Still, as their leader, I wanted nothing more than to free everyone and see the oppressive system of the Commonwealth overturned. Pyre’s narrative structure doesn’t make that possible, and it made me feel like shit. If you lose rites, the game just continues, and you have to figure out how to cope with knowing you might have fucked yourself. At the end of the game, some characters will remain in the Downside.

The first time I nominated Xae for liberation I lost the rite. For a brief moment, knowing I’d only have a few more chances to liberate characters, I thought, “Well, guess I’ll just start the game over.” I pressed on instead, realizing that no matter how many times I play Pyre, I’ll always have a moment where I feel like I’ve doomed my plans. Pyre makes you live with your mistakes. In your effort to change the Commonwealth, you will fuck up by losing rites, failing to liberate characters, or making choices that will temporarily give them worse stats. It will feel awful.

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First appearance. The Daleks (1. 96. The Daleks ( ( listen)DAH- leks) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The Daleks were conceived by science- fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1. Doctor Who serial The Daleks, in the shells designed by Raymond Cusick.

Drawing inspirations from the real- life example of the Nazis, the Daleks are merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, demanding total conformity,[1] bent on conquest of the universe and the extermination of what they see as inferior races. Their catchphrase, "Exterminate!", is a well- recognised reference in British popular culture.

Within the programme's narrative, the Daleks were engineered by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand- year war between his people, the Kaleds, and their enemies the Thals. With some Kaleds already badly mutated and damaged by nuclear war, Davros genetically modified the Kaleds and integrated them with a tank- like, robotic shell, removing their every emotion apart from hate. His creations soon came to view themselves as the supreme race in the universe, intent on purging the universe of all non- Dalek life. Collectively they are the greatest enemies of Doctor Who's protagonist, the Time Lord known as The Doctor. Later in the programme's run, the Daleks acquired time travel technology and engaged the Time Lords in a brutal Time War affecting most of the universe, with battles taking place across all of history. They are among the show's most popular villains and their various returns to the series over the years have typically been widely reported in the television press.

Creation[edit]The Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation and designed by BBC designer Raymond Cusick.[2] They were introduced in December 1. Doctor Who serial, colloquially known as The Daleks.[3] They became an immediate and huge hit with viewers, featuring in many subsequent serials and two 1. They have become as synonymous with Doctor Who as the Doctor himself, and their behaviour and catchphrases are now part of British popular culture. Hiding behind the sofa whenever the Daleks appear" has been cited as an element of British cultural identity; [4] and a 2. British children were able to identify a Dalek correctly.[5] In 1.

Dalek photographed by Lord Snowdon appeared on a postage stamp celebrating British popular culture.[6] In 2. SFX voted the Dalek as the all- time greatest monster, beating competition including Japanese movie monster. Godzilla and J. R. R. Tolkien's Gollum, of The Lord of the Rings.[7]Entry into popular culture[edit]As early as one year after first appearing on Doctor Who, the Daleks had become popular enough to be recognized even by non- viewers.

In December 1. 96. Leslie Gilbert Illingworth published a cartoon in the Daily Mail captioned "THE DEGAULLEK", caricaturing French President Charles de Gaulle arriving at a NATO meeting as a Dalek with de Gaulle's prominent nose.[8]The word "Dalek" has entered major dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines "Dalek" as "a type of robot appearing in 'Dr. Who' [sic], a B. B. C. Television science- fiction programme; hence used allusively."[9] But English- speakers sometimes use the term metaphorically to describe people, usually authority figures, who act like robots unable to break from their programming. For example, John Birt, the Director- General of the BBC from 1.

Dalek" by playwright Dennis Potter in the Mac. Taggart Lecture at the 1. Edinburgh Television Festival.[1. Physical characteristics[edit]Externally, Daleks resemble human- sized pepper pots[2] with a single mechanical eyestalk mounted on a rotating dome, a gun mount containing an energy weapon ("gunstick" or "death ray") resembling an egg whisk, and a telescopic manipulator arm usually tipped by an appendage resembling a sink plunger. Daleks have been known to use their plungers to interface with technology,[1. Dalek casings are made of a bonded polycarbide material dubbed "dalekanium" by a member of the human resistance in The Dalek Invasion of Earth and by the Cult of Skaro in "Daleks in Manhattan".[1.

The lower half of a Dalek's shell is covered with hemispherical protrusions, or "Dalek bumps", which are shown in the episode "Dalek" to be spheres embedded in the casing.[1. Both the BBC- licensed Dalek Book (1. The Doctor Who Technical Manual (1. Dalek", they are integral to a Dalek's self- destruct mechanism.[1. Their armour has a forcefield that evaporates most bullets and resists most types of energy weapons. The forcefield seems to be concentrated around the Dalek's midsection (where the mutant is located), as normally ineffective firepower can be concentrated on the eyestalk to blind a Dalek.

Daleks have a very limited visual field, with no peripheral sight at all, and are relatively easy to hide from in fairly exposed places.[1. Their own energy weapons are capable of destroying them.[1. Their weapons fire a beam that has electrical tendencies, is capable of propagating through water, and may be a form of plasma. The eyepiece is a Dalek's most vulnerable spot; impairing its vision often leads to a blind, panicked firing of its weapon while exclaiming "My vision is impaired; I cannot see!" Russell T Davies subverted the catchphrase in his 2. The Stolen Earth", in which a Dalek vaporises a paintball that has blocked its vision while proclaiming "My vision is not impaired!"[1. The creature inside the mechanical casing is soft and repulsive in appearance and vicious in temperament. The first- ever glimpse of a Dalek mutant, in The Daleks, was a claw peeking out from under a Thal cloak after it had been removed from its casing.[2.

The mutants' actual appearance has varied, but often adheres to the Doctor's description of the species in Remembrance of the Daleks as "little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour".[2. In Resurrection of the Daleks a Dalek creature, separated from its casing, attacks and severely injures a human soldier; [2. Remembrance of the Daleks, there are two Dalek factions (Imperial and Renegade) and the creatures inside have a different appearance in each case, one resembling the amorphous creature from Resurrection, the other the crab- like creature from the original Dalek serial. As the creature inside is rarely seen on screen, a common misconception exists that Daleks are wholly mechanical robots.[2. In the new series Daleks are retconned to be mollusc- like in appearance, with small tentacles, one or two eyes, and an exposed brain.[1. Daleks' voices are electronic; when out of its casing the mutant is only able to squeak.[2. Once the mutant is removed, the casing itself can be entered and operated by humanoids; for example, in The Daleks, Ian Chesterton (William Russell) enters a Dalek shell to masquerade as a guard as part of an escape plan.[2.

For many years it was assumed that, due to their design and gliding motion, Daleks were unable to climb stairs, and that this was a simple way of escaping them. A well- known cartoon from Punch pictured a group of Daleks at the foot of a flight of stairs with the caption, "Well, this certainly buggers our plan to conquer the Universe".[2. In a scene from the serial Destiny of the Daleks, the Doctor and companions escape from Dalek pursuers by climbing into a ceiling duct. The Fourth Doctor calls down, "If you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us?"[2.

The Daleks generally make up for their lack of mobility with overwhelming firepower; a joke among Doctor Who fans goes, "Real Daleks don't climb stairs; they level the building."[2.