Even for a fake world in a game, this is going too far. I’m standing in something that looks like the Grand Canyon, only perhaps smaller. The red and brown colors of limestone and sand look nothing like what I’d expect to see in Oasis. It’s a terrain that no longer exists in the post-Goo world. But the scenery isn’t the weirdest part, and neither is the door I just exited, which is hanging in the air like a warp gate with no building behind it. No, the weirdest part is the creatures surrounding me—and I’m using the term ‘creatures’ loosely. These beings appear to have come straight out of my worst childhood nightmares. My earliest nightmare, like those of many other Youths, started after we learned about the end of the world by Goo, and specifically about the Artificial Intelligence explosion that preceded this event. It’s the AI stuff that the Adults described in graphic detail, going so far as to show us what this unholy, machine-spawned life might’ve looked like, as well as the atrocities these machines most likely committed against the ancient people before the Goo finished the job.
What do You think about Oasis (The Last Humans Book 1)?
