Turns out, Watch Dogs: Legion is pretty good. Legion’s hook is that everybody strolling round its open-world London will be recruited to your hacker terrorist cell Dedsec. Not solely that, however you may as well play as each individual you recruit, every bringing their very own particular skills and traits to your crew. Personally, I believe that Legion is a fairly run-of-the-mill open-world game, however its “recruit anyone” mechanic is actually spectacular.
Rather than hand-make the hundreds of individuals you encounter and doubtlessly recruit to your crew, Legion appears to combine and match from a wide range of phrases and key phrases (some mundane, some deeply unusual) to make its particular person residents. Because of this, yow will discover some actual freaks strolling round London. I like all of them.
After many, many hours scanning each individual I can in Legion, listed below are the weirdest, funniest, and most annoying characters I discovered.
Seo-hyeon Lee
I’m obsessive about this woman. But I’ve so many questions. First and foremost: When did she get into physique modification? As we will see, Lee is a ripe 72 years previous. Left untouched, tattoos fade over time, however Lee’s are immaculate. Did she discover a love of face tattoos and physique modification late in life? What may have led her to make such excessive selections in her twilight years? Oh, and whereas we’re at it, have a look at these white eyes. Are these contacts or did she tattoo her irises white? Either method, it is a good look. Keep doing you, honey.
One different fast notice: Under her character metadata it particulars that Lee’s mother and father are deceased. She’s 72. No crap.
Cameron Brown
Cameron Brown has been shot 126 instances. The game specifies this was by “a number of incidents.” Let’s break that down actually fast: At age 33, Brown would wish to have been shot 3.818 instances per 12 months since beginning to succeed in his present quantity. Somehow, this looks as if the most effective final result. Because if he hasn’t been shot yearly since beginning, yearly he went with no bullet in him will increase the quantity of instances he must be shot. For instance, say these a number of incidents have been a modest eight instances unfold out over time. That means eight instances in his life, Brown would wish to have been shot 15.75 instances. No matter the way you do the mathematics, Brown’s life sucks. He’s a movie critic, so I suppose this all type of is smart.
Krystian Kalinowski
In this home we don’t demonize, belittle, or choose addicts, whether or not they be energetic or in restoration. In the world of Watch Dogs: Legion, like in the true world, the federal government and personal militaries working London are responsible of all variety of disgusting, despicable conduct. But this one is private.
As of right now, I’m 437 days sober, after battling an alcohol dependancy for a few years. The concept of anybody utilizing my earlier struggles with substance abuse in opposition to me, a lot much less the federal government holding this reality on my private report, is actually disturbing. Addicts shouldn’t be outlined by their illness, particularly if it hinders their potential to use for jobs or authorities assist. It’s actually despicable that Kalinowski’s metadata contains this element, as a result of I do know that is used in opposition to him.
Side notice: Please deal with addicts with love and respect. Also, lots of the character descriptions and metadata in Legion are performed for jokes. Addict jokes are lazy and tasteless. Do higher, Ubisoft.
Douglas Hameed
There’s lots of care taken to make sure Watch Dogs: Legion’s near-future London is a plausible tech dystopia. In 2020, I should buy that the federal government would use our willingness to overshare private info on the web in opposition to us, permitting a personal army run by a sociopathic billionaire to police our streets with violence and discrimination.
However, I can not settle for that farts are usually not humorous. Legion is attempting to inform me that if I have been to infiltrate an enemy base with Hameed, his IBS would alert guards to his place, thus compromising him? That’s absurd. Farts are hilarious. What would really occur is Hameed would by accident set free considered one of his toots and any guard inside earshot would instantly burst right into a match of laughter, permitting Hameed a window to sneak behind and incapacitate them. You won’t prefer it, however that is science. This utterly breaks my immersion.
Some different gems
We all been there, buddy.
How dangerous are issues in near-future London that individuals make it part of their every day schedule to go be assaulted and arrested?
I’ve purple hair, not a priority for me.
Clout chasers are in every single place.
For extra on Watch Dogs: Legion, take a look at our review. If you’re taking part in Legion however want some assist, we even have spoiler-free advice for brand spanking new gamers. Lastly, for a little bit of enjoyable, check out how Watch Dogs: Legion is taking over all of Ubisoft’s different games.
