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Re: Question about Snatchers
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:22 am
by kankokujin
zombie-flesheater wrote:This might contain some spoilers now...
It might be a bit far-fetched but Snatcher's main theme is also about isolation of individuals, mistrust, etc. So maybe nobody at Junker HQ did actually have close ties to the chief to suspect anything at all? And the chief being close to Katrina, we don't know if the REAL chief was close to her at all. So maybe it was just a disguise or diversion the snatcher himself made up.
In fact, he is pretty emotionless and even Jean's death doesn't seem to upset him too much. The only three things i ever had him get angry were hitting on Mika, hitting on Katrina and spending all my investigation money in Outer Heaven
What still bothers me is how long the game actually takes in real time. When they find the chief's body, Metal says that he's been dead for about a month. So did Gillian indeed never meet the real chief at all or has it been more than a month since his arrival and it's just the game making it look like everything happens just within a couple of days (if even)?
Gillian never meeting the real chief is very likely but the latter can also be true. If Snatcher is anything like Policenauts, more time could have passed than we may think. For example, I remember Jonathon Ingram mentioning something about borrowing Ed's underwear even though we barely see him enter his house.
Re: Question about Snatchers
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:39 am
by zombie-flesheater
kankokujin wrote:zombie-flesheater wrote:This might contain some spoilers now...
It might be a bit far-fetched but Snatcher's main theme is also about isolation of individuals, mistrust, etc. So maybe nobody at Junker HQ did actually have close ties to the chief to suspect anything at all? And the chief being close to Katrina, we don't know if the REAL chief was close to her at all. So maybe it was just a disguise or diversion the snatcher himself made up.
In fact, he is pretty emotionless and even Jean's death doesn't seem to upset him too much. The only three things i ever had him get angry were hitting on Mika, hitting on Katrina and spending all my investigation money in Outer Heaven
What still bothers me is how long the game actually takes in real time. When they find the chief's body, Metal says that he's been dead for about a month. So did Gillian indeed never meet the real chief at all or has it been more than a month since his arrival and it's just the game making it look like everything happens just within a couple of days (if even)?
Gillian never meeting the real chief is very likely but the latter can also be true. If Snatcher is anything like Policenauts, more time could have passed than we may think. For example, I remember Jonathon Ingram mentioning something about borrowing Ed's underwear even though we barely see him enter his house.
Maybe the underwear is still from "back then", before his accident? I don't remember this scene, though, so maybe i'm completely wrong...
It's just strange how in Snatcher
Re: Question about Snatchers
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:41 am
by kankokujin
zombie-flesheater wrote:kankokujin wrote:zombie-flesheater wrote:This might contain some spoilers now...
It might be a bit far-fetched but Snatcher's main theme is also about isolation of individuals, mistrust, etc. So maybe nobody at Junker HQ did actually have close ties to the chief to suspect anything at all? And the chief being close to Katrina, we don't know if the REAL chief was close to her at all. So maybe it was just a disguise or diversion the snatcher himself made up.
In fact, he is pretty emotionless and even Jean's death doesn't seem to upset him too much. The only three things i ever had him get angry were hitting on Mika, hitting on Katrina and spending all my investigation money in Outer Heaven
What still bothers me is how long the game actually takes in real time. When they find the chief's body, Metal says that he's been dead for about a month. So did Gillian indeed never meet the real chief at all or has it been more than a month since his arrival and it's just the game making it look like everything happens just within a couple of days (if even)?
Gillian never meeting the real chief is very likely but the latter can also be true. If Snatcher is anything like Policenauts, more time could have passed than we may think. For example, I remember Jonathon Ingram mentioning something about borrowing Ed's underwear even though we barely see him enter his house.
Maybe the underwear is still from "back then", before his accident? I don't remember this scene, though, so maybe i'm completely wrong...
It's just strange how in Snatcher
You could say that about his other games too.
Besides, if I was a Snatcher, helping Gillian would make me less suspicious. I think that's also why he got so mad those few times. I don't think Snatchers care about sacrificing one of their own for their goal.
Re: Question about Snatchers
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:05 pm
by zombie-flesheater
kankokujin wrote:
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You could say that about his other games too.
Besides, if I was a Snatcher, helping Gillian would make me less suspicious. I think that's also why he got so mad those few times. I don't think Snatchers care about sacrificing one of their own for their goal.
Not caring about sacrifice reminds me of a quote from the movie "Hardware - M.A.R.K. 13" (which also happens to bear some resemblance to Snatcher and Blade Runner). It is said during a chess match against a computer that machines don't know sacrifice. Sounds plausible.
Concerning the Chief's behaviour
Re: Question about Snatchers
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:13 am
by el_ash
As far as the "Factory" and Gibson...
I know that the factory had a tunnel into the undergound, so maybe they lurred him into to a trap that they knew they could escape from. Maybe the cheif even tip'd them off to Gibson and helped set this trap?
I have to refresh on my Snatcher knowledge again...
There are only a few plot holes that I can't quite remember right now (damn you school!)
Re: Question about Snatchers
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:17 pm
by zombie-flesheater
el_ash wrote:As far as the "Factory" and Gibson...
I know that the factory had a tunnel into the undergound, so maybe they lurred him into to a trap that they knew they could escape from. Maybe the cheif even tip'd them off to Gibson and helped set this trap?
I have to refresh on my Snatcher knowledge again...
There are only a few plot holes that I can't quite remember right now (damn you school!)
Which plot holes do you mean? I played the SCD version very, very often and everytime i thought i found a plothole, i managed to come up with a half-way decent explaination
