2010-09-23, 05:45 PM
IsaacGS Wrote:Not even. Even if you use time travel logic none of it makes any sense at all.
1. Visitors are seen in the present.
2. Dr. Bing develops the suit to fight the aliens.
3. The Bing suits are powered by crystanol which is obtained from the future.
4. Using the bing suits, the visitors are driven back.
5. The visitor mothership crashes and their leader is defeated. He's revealed to be Future Dr. Bing.
6. Future Dr. Bing says that because all the crystanol was used up, the future maple world became uninhabitable.
This is where it stops making sense. If all the crystanol is used up, then we can't go into the future and take it, because it doesn't exist there anymore. If we can't go into the future and take it, then the bing suits can't work. If the bing suits can't work, this means the visitor suits can never come to be, and that the future must still have plenty of Crystanol since no one traveled forward to take it. If there's plenty of crystanol, there's no reason for anyone to go back in time and try to live out-of-phase in the present. If there's no reason for anyone to go back in time, then it's impossible for us to have seen the visitors in the present at the start of the event. Therefore, there's no reason for the bing suits to be developed in the first place, no NEED for crystanol in the present, and no reason to go take it forward in the future. There is no problem and everyone lives happily ever after.
Future Doctor Bing also says, "When did the visitors ever attack you first!?" right before he sends you to the earliest point in the event's in-game timeline TO ATTACK FIRST. If he doesn't send you back in part 4 to kill yourself from part 1, then there would be no reason to assume the visitors were aggressive and no need for such a ridiculous plan to fight them off in the first place. So not only does the causality of events not line up under any sort of logic, but the "resolution" actually ends up ruining what little sense there was to be had out of it. from a storyline perspective, event is a total failure. As a game mechanics experiment, i'd say it was wildly successful. IMO it was also a failure from a gameplay perspective but that's more personal opinion.
Makes sense...
But as the NPC said, they were already there but invisible. If they were invisible, that means their power source, the crystanol depleted. Which means that they were able to be seen by the present-past inhabitants. The present inhabitants reacted upon this, went to the future to steal the crystanol and then they returned to build the bing suits, which were later developed into the visitor suits.
Upon progression of the plot, the future bing then claimed that because of so many people taking crystanol, their power source was being taking bit by bit and the world would be uninabitable, which is the soul reason why they made the visitor suits in the first place since thier bodies were to frail to live in the future as it was.
So to prevent the crystanol from being depleted, the future bing sends you to the past in stage 1 reversed to destroy all the tools that were used to make the time machine. Since the time machine wasn't made, that means that no one would go to the future to take more crystanol.
But heres the thing really, the Future inhabitants only appeared because of their powersource being depleted. This means that somewhere along the line all the crystanol ran out before anyone went to the future to take it.
So in theory this is my guess is that there really was no future, there was no time machine. The future was ACTUALY a pocket in time or a time crossroad of sorts in time that was exploited by both sides to create havoc. When the crossroad intersected, which was when the crystanol ran out and when the visitors appeared, that is when pomegranate hit the fan and when stage 2 ~ 3 occured.
In the end, you were sent minus 1 day before the event occured when Dr.Bind was still in omega and he wouldn't remember you since you never met him yet. Thus the world is saved and the crossroad of time was destroyed along with the memory of the visitor's exsistance as they are invisible since their crystanol never ran out.
Which leads me to a really stupid cliffhanger if you ask me... As they might appear again someday due to their power source being stolen again by another figure.