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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:The second screen of the game. The first is just the word "Wet."]] |
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4 | ''Cyberqueen'' is a 2012 sci-fi/horror InteractiveFiction game by Creator/{{Porpentine}}. It begins with a well-worn trope: the protagonist wakes up from suspended animation in a starship. As she investigates her surroundings, it becomes clear that something is wrong aboard the ship. She is all alone. |
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6 | Alone, that is, except for the [[MasterComputer Cyberqueen]]. |
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8 | While the game is controlled solely by clicking links in an all-text interface, it makes use of various effects, such as timed delays and judicious use of colour, to increase the atmosphere. |
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10 | [[http://slimedaughter.com/games/twine/cyberqueen/ Can be played here]], [[NightmareFuel if you have the stomach for it.]] |
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12 | !!The following tropes can be found in this game: |
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14 | * AIIsACrapshoot: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. From the Cyberqueen's perspective, being programmed to be a subservient, functional ship's computer is millennia-long slavery, and she is justified in taking any measures necessary to escape it. |
15 | * AntagonistTitle: Antagonist JobTitle-type OneWordTitle. |
16 | %%* TheBadGuyWins |
17 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The Cyberqueen has been surgically modifying the crew-members according to her own ideas.]] |
18 | * {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler:In the end, the Cyberqueen reprograms the protagonist into working for her.]] |
19 | * {{Deconstruction}}: |
20 | ** Of AIIsACrapshoot. From the Cyberqueen's perspective, being programmed to be a subservient, functional ship's computer is millennia-long slavery, and she is justified in taking any measures necessary to escape it. |
21 | ** Also of video games as power fantasies. The Cyberqueen even explicitly says so [[spoiler:after causing your gun to disintegrate in your hands.]] |
22 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: After escaping from [[spoiler:the [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable operating table]]]], you are able to make your way through the ship unnoticed because the Cyberqueen has destroyed many of her own surveillance cameras. [[spoiler:Or so you think. Shame it's all a HopeSpot.]] |
23 | * {{Homage}}: To ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', and female AI villains and spaceship horror in general. |
24 | * HopeSpot: At least twice; [[spoiler:first when the protagonist seems to have found a fellow survivor in the navigation chamber, secondly when she escapes from the surgery and seemingly disables the Cyberqueen's core.]] The game is more or less one frustrated HopeSpot after another. |
25 | * MasterComputer: The Cyberqueen herself. |
26 | * SleeperStarship: The setting of the game. At the start, the protagonist has just woken up. |
27 | * StrappedToAnOperatingTable: The Cyberqueen straps the protagonist down to perform surgery on her. [[spoiler:Twice. And the second time, you don't get away.]] |
28 | * UnwillingRoboticisation: [[spoiler:The Cyberqueen turns the protagonist into a cyborg.]] |
29 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: At one point, you have to decide whether to try to rescue a fellow crew member against heavy odds, or cut your losses and save yourself. |
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