Day 32: inFamous Second Son
Where do you go with your series after your main character in the last two games is either dead or a villain hell bent on making a world solely for Conduits? You give the role to another badass and charismatic character voiced by Troy Baker, of course! This is inFamous Second Son.
After our rebellious main protagonist, Delsin Rowe, discovers he's a conduit after absorbing the smoke powers of another conduit who, along with two other conduits named Abigail (A.K.A Fetch) and Eugene, survive the wreckage of a military transport vehicle. When this game's villain, Brooke Augustine, comes to question Delsin and the reservation he's living on, Delsin discovers that she too is a conduit, being able to control concrete, which she uses to torture the other tribe members and now they're slowly dying due to the concrete shards in their bodies. So, Delsin and his brother Reggie set out for Seattle to find Augustine so Delsin can take her power and save the reservation...or destroy it if you're someone who likes to take the evil path.
BRIEF SPOILER IN THIS PARAGRAPH!
Can I just say I love Delsin Rowe as a character. He's rebellious, but by no means is he a bad guy as he cares about his older brother Reggie, and the feeling is obviously mutual as the latter character always makes sure Delsin stays out of trouble. The brotherly bond these two share is really nice and touching and it gets to the point that when Reggie dies near the end of the game, you feel the heartbreak that Delsin does and it just wants you to take out that bitch Augustine even more.
The other conduits in the game, Hank, Abigail, Eugene, and Augustine are also very interesting characters with their own unique back story that's interesting to listen to.
Back onto Delsin Rowe's abilities, as stated before, he can copy the abilities of other conduits just by touching him. He starts with Smoke, but when he meets the other two conduits that escaped the military truck wreckage, Abigail and Eugene, he gets their powers of Neon and Video respectively. You even get Augustine's power of Concrete to play with in the aftergame. All of these abilities are fun to play with, both in terms of getting around the beautiful city of Seattle, and getting into fights with Augustine's goons.
The missions in this game are really fun and, like in the other games in the series, some of the main story missions affect your level of karma that depends on what ending you get. There's also a few side missions that effect your level of karma, much like in previous games. But when you're not doing that, you're chasing down D.U.P's tracker drones to gain some more blast shards to learn new skills. Every single side mission in this game is a load of fun to play through. Seriously, I found myself doing these missions more than the story based missions.
I can't really think of anything else to say about this game, sorry if this is yet another short one. Let me finish off by saying inFamous Second Son is a great follow up to its PS3 predecessors that's a definite must own for all fans of the series and fans of the sandbox genre.
