Mentor just keeps shrugging, nonchalantly mentioning how she’ll let you figure things out for yourself, or commenting on how frustrated and confused you must feel while completely refusing to help you. In other games, your disembodied helper voice can’t stop giving you hints and directions about where to go or what to do next. Mentor is a young, entirely over-it French woman, and her personality gives the game just the right touch of humor.
That’s an intriguing hook for a character, and a fun callback to Myst’s notoriously unreliable narrators. Upon waking from your frosty nap, you’re greeted by a sort of digital ghost known only as Mentor - and literally the second thing she tells you is that she’s going to lie to you. Considering that you’re released from cryogenic sleep with your memory wiped to find their labors abandoned and in disrepair, things presumably didn’t go too well. While Irrational Games’s classic Ayn-Rand-‘em-up critiqued Objectivism and its emphasis on selfish gain at all costs, Firmament sets up a world of collaborative workers who shun avarice to pursue a mysterious common goal. Indeed, the game seems to be in an intriguing conversation with the ideals and politics of its more famous and murdery predecessor. With its brass-intensive, steampunk-deco environments, Firmament feels a lot like Bioshock, except, you know, pleasant.
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