Burn-9 Makes An Entire Game Out Of Metal Gear’s Codec Scenes

“Do you think love can blossom even on the battlefield?” This is one of the many questions the Metal Gear series asks players to consider in its many cutscenes and codec calls. As a player, you’ve often seen those conversations play out from the perspective of Big Boss or one of his many clones, but a new game from indie studio 14 Hours Productions asks what if those interactions were you instead of the person behind the screen. Announced today during the Story-Rich Showcase, burn-9 It has been described as “reverse metal gears”.

As a radio operator, your job is to guide a secret agent named Dodo as they try to rescue a mission that has gone horribly wrong. Your conversations with the agent and other people play out in a series of radio conversations. Each time, you’ll have a chance to respond to situations in a few different ways, deciding how to best guide your agent and how much information you want to give them and your superiors.

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Publisher Fellow Traveler says, “Between army command and your field agent, the orders given to you may conflict with your own morals and interests.” Judging from that description, burn-9 It seems like it’s trying to accomplish what Lucas Pope did with his breakaway hit, papers, pleasewhich forced players to make impactful moral decisions through the most mundane gameplay. The description continues: “As the pressure increases, impossible choices will be thrown at you. Information becomes your greatest weapon, and each piece of information you gather presents a new opportunity. What will you share? What should never see the light of day? Who can you trust?”

burn-9 Will be coming to PC via Steam later this year. A demo of the game will be available as part of Steam Next Fest, which will run from June 15 to 22. Separately, Fellow Traveler shared a new trailer penguin colonyThe next game from Origami Digital, the studio behind 2020’s excellent umurangi generation. penguin colony is an adaptation of the HP Lovecraft novels on the mountains of madness And shadow of time. And look, the sound of if disco elysium If narrator Lenval Brown isn’t enough to sell you on this game, then surely the fact that you watch various human factions, including some Nazis, descend into madness through the penguin’s eyes should be enough. penguin colony It will be coming to PC and Nintendo Switch 2 later this year, with a demo now available on Steam.