In part 6 ending of this blind Deliver US Mars gameplay/walkthrough, Kathy enters the Panopticon.
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Developer: KeokeN Interactive
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► Deliver Us Mars Story Synopsis
Deliver Us Mars is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure taking you on a suspense-fuelled, high-stakes mission to recover the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward.
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Pretty short game, but also interesting overall. I like the characters in this game, because they all are pretty complex, though MacArthur definitely became a 1-dimensional villain by the end of it.
I really like Isaac as a character because he is indeed such a terrible father and person, even though he always thinks that he's doing the right thing. To me, his biggest flaw is his indecisiveness. If he really took charge and picked a side during critical moments, things would have turned out better than they did.
I actually think that Isaac isn't going to prison, assuming there's a functional Earth left. I'm reminded of the German scientists after WW2 getting recruited by the US to work on the rocket program.
Every time he called her moonbear I wanted to throw up.
I wouldn't want to be alone on a ship with that guy. I'm glad they restrained him.
Seems like they kind of wrote themselves into a corner with no kind of compromise available for either side at the end. It was either save the Earth, sacrificing the colonists or abandon it sacrificing the people of Earth.
Issac is horrible. The man has zero morals beyond himself and one of his daughters. He purposefully killed Rosa and all those people to thin out the group (which I kinda get due to depleted rations, but also… yiiikes). Agree that he gets zero redemption points because he's leaving the colonists presumably to die. I'm so sad for Ryan. I hope he could at least move the bodies…? He's by himself for 6 months. There were no children among the colonists (except the possible pregnancy?). And to just leave them. Whew! This game pulls at all your heart/soul strings… but it really does capture the worst in us. That felt real. Excellent game play & commentary Welonz!
thing is the mars colony was already doomed. you need a minimum of 100 people 50 men and 50 women of child rearing age for a sustainable population. vita looked like it had maybe 25.
I had a great time with this on the PS5. It seems like the climbing works similar to how you described, just with the controller's triggers instead of mouse buttons. It felt intuitive enough, except for the 15-20 minutes I spent trying to figure out how to jump backwards.
From what I could tell it compares pretty favorably to the PC version. The only big technical issue was some really horrible geometry pop-in during the outdoors Earth parts.
I can't think of anything much to add to your summary at the end. More diverse puzzles would be my main want for the sequel that I really hope is coming.
Many characters in this game make me so frustrated, especially Issac. Like you really…you really LEFT Earth to what, go and live on Mars??? MARS???? Were there even the tests to see if humans were compatible there?? And surprise, they aren't. And these idiots just keep trying and dying, instead of actually, you know, fixing their own planet, which is in a much better condition than Mars and you know, is where your species evolved on. And you know, just dooming endless species for a handful of humans that are going to die out soon because a dust storm killed your wive. Like wow, natural disaster happened, let's pack it up and leave the planet. It's so dumb and it makes me so mad. AND POOR CLAIRE!! SHE DIED FOR ALL THIS AND LIKE HER DAD STILL NEVER CARED WHAT THE HELL. Anywho, thank you for playing this game!!
Final conclusion: F Isaac. He's a selfish, self-important prick. I don't think this is a discussion of whether or not this guy is a good dad anymore. He parentilized Claire to the point he didn't see her as his daughter anymore, abandoned Kathy, he didn't even ASK about Claire, and none of that is important bc above all, he's a murderer, and all for his own stupid selfish reasons. Hope all this mess was worth not going to prison, and saying he'd do anything to see her again is a straight up lie. He could've done that. He could have seen her again YEARS ago, but he was too much of a bitch to deal with the consequences of his own actions.
18:30 never played but can guarantee it's the triggers
37:30 had she not gone with you'd all be dead since ayla has been pretty much required to learn what needs to be done.
Well, i have to say, i liked that one quite a lot. Solid improvement on the first game, and i hope these guys keep going. Decent graphics, decent mechanics and puzzles, decent story, too, quite engaging, even, for me to write multiple comments on it, haven't done that one in a while :D. Even if i got some gripes with it. Curious to see if what i write down will differ with your post-game assessment, haven't watched that part yet.
Jesus christ on a bike, Isaac. That moment when the decision to kill McArthur, Rosa and a shitton of other people is somehow one that's most logical. Abhorrent, to be fucking sure, but still – he understood that with McArthur dead, Rosa won't stop, and since returning to Earth was out of the question for him…
But then, hot damn. He had to have known that the chance that Earth would let Kathy go on that mission wouldn't be high, and even if she did come, she would 100% not come alone. What was the plan for her teammates, imprison them? Kill them? Fucking hell.
And even putting that aside, what he says at 1:03:22 is pure horseshit. Even if you have enough people for sustainable population growth, which i'm not sure you do(we don't see that many, but we can't know how many are there in total), you are very clearly incapable of relaunching either full-scale Odum operations or Hershel operations, and without ARK Labos you've got barely any power to work with. So, no, the colony isn't stable, and Kathy's chances of surviving here aren't higher than they are on the "doomed" Earth.
While not mentioning Claire is honestly par for the course, let's be real here, Claire was wasted as a character in general(even Kathy only gets one scene of mourning and then basically doesn't bring Claire up for the rest of the game), the most notable thing about Isaac-Kathy conversation to me is that he treats her as a possession, rather than a person. Sure, last time he saw her she was still a kid, but he doesn't even consider the possibility of her having her own desires.
Overall the ending does seem a tiny bit rushed, but eh, it works. And with the ambiguity of what's going on back home, Deliver Us Earth is the logical next step.
I was kinda hoping that Isaac would have some redemption. In his holograms he shows clear regret and while that doesn't excuse past sins, regret is the first step on the path to change and atonement. But then he just let Rosa and everyone else die and continued his misguided betrayal of all of Earth, so yeah, no redemption for him.
He claims that McArthur and Rosa would both destroy the colony, and McArthur is definitely the worst of the three, but Isaac is also to blame by being a fence sitter the entire time. He did nothing to stop it and through his indecision and inaction, allowed it to come to pass. Of the three, I'd argue that Rosa was the most right, though not blameless.
Furthermore, his and McArthur's philosophy that "oh, humanity is doomed because we refuse to come together and unite around a singular idea, but surely our group of people who are frankly unextraordinary in the 'being cooperative' department will avoid all that and it won't be an issue ever again" is just nonsense. Humans are individuals, that's a feature, not a flaw. And one you've gotta accommodate for, not suppress or ignore.
And yeah, the wealthiest nations are likely to hoard the arks for themselves and that's terrible, there's no denying that, but what exactly is Isaac doing if not hoarding it for himself and an even smaller number of people? If the wealthier nations hoard the arks, they'll still at least help more people than a handful of colonists and the citizens of those nations will be in position to protest for their use in helping those that their governments won't. On Mars, you can't do any of that.
Also I do wish that Claire's death was more meaningful than just a shock moment. This bit is tacked on, but frankly, so was her death scene.
I do feel bad for Ryan though. He's such a nice guy and while he was acting in self defense, that's gonna live with him forever.
I'm devastated for Ryan, of all the crew he kept his head level the whole time, and I imagine he had to fight off the colonists. He's probably broken by what he had to do to survive.
This game was incredible, like you said, the voice acting was fking unreal the moments of grief were really impactful.
Isaac was really unhinged, I tried to empathise with him but anything he said could literally be countered with him just doing something so unreasonable. Even him just saying he put the call out just so she would come to him and not to be saves its like… are you kidding me?! I don't think he has learnt anything and I feel like he will still find a way to fuck things up in the next one.
Either way I am sooooooo ready for them to announce Deliver us the Earth.. that has to be what this is leading to, right????
I need a fridge expert here. How the heck does Isaac have a real fridge in his make-shift house on Mars? at 1:04:42
I'd understand if it was a repurposed space fridge from one of the arcs, a futiristic looking device with locking mechanism for zero-G as well as orbital acceleration. You know, like sturdy utilitarian device for spacefaring in ships and stark extraterrestrial habitats. But this is an ordinary freaking refrigerator from a hardware store! Who got it to the moon and later to the arks and why?
Will there be a prequel to the games called "Deliver us a fridge"? I want to know its story, damn it!
Isaac has no redemption.
Just a weak passive man.
In the next game I could do less with "humans are bad because they are not united" bs.
Clearly writters have issues understanding human nature.
Hey Welonz would you ever play Steins;Gate Elite,it's a science fiction visual novel and it's really good,it would be cool to see you play it.
isaac is such a terrible person, i just can't trust that guy. i think if he sees the possibility to leave the earth in the future (and probably jeopardize anything that could save the earth), he would do it again. and the fact that claire died just for him not needing to be saved??? i wish we could see more of her… and poor ryan. anyway, deliver us earth next?? i'm so invested with how this is going to end!
Isaac was a fantastic character. I love how he's not a moustache-twirling villain, but he's very manipulative and even that isn't done in a stereotypical way. I found myself feeling quite sympathetic for him, but your anger at him kinda grounded me a little and reminded me that oh yeah, I SHOULDN'T be feeling too sorry for this guy.
All the characters were so well-written though. One review on metacritic described the characters as 'bland', but I couldn't disagree more. There was interesting drama that didn't feel contrived, and it felt like there was a LOT of subtext going on with a lot of the dialogue. I was really impressed by the nuance. And of course, like you said, amazing voice acting all around.
I can very well imagine a possible next game in this universe being title 'Deliver us Venus or Jupiter'
I feel like leaving Mars colonists there to die is an antithesis of what Claire said to Kathy earlier, about doing the right thing and meaning well. They may have had rights to take the arks back to Earth in order to save the population there, it can be argued that this was a lawful repossession. But leaving colonists to die can't be a right thing. The salvage team basically did the same thing that the Lunar Council did earlier. They didn't ask anyone, just took it and left. I would understand if they forced everyone to make a choice: "Leave with us or die on Mars." By threatening to destory the arks anyway for example. It would be morally questionable but more humane. Alas, they just took off.
And yyyyyyyeah, like a lot of other people here, I can't stand Isaac and want him to be in engineering prison the rest of his life, lol. And it's not enough that his wife was fridged early on. We get a poignant story about how she – and Kathy – were *almost fridged, at Kathy's birth! @1:32:00 slow clap for alllll his emotional issues, and for nonetheless managing to kill 2 different groups of Mars colonists. Isaac, I present to you this award for Narcissistic Manpain. *gives him gold-plated Deimos
MacArthur didn't care about anyone or anything except his own vision, he was a zealot. He needed Isaac for his expertise. He needed a work force to make things happen. As we later find out he had no qualms about killing everyone that opposed him. Isaac seemed obsessed with only securing Kathy's future. I think the death of his wife may have pushed him even further to that extreme.
Claire always seemed at odds with her father for making questionable choices. I suspect that may have been the reason he didn't seem to care about her. It's as if he only saw Claire as a surrogate babysitter for Kathy until his plans were put into play. It's possible Claire had some resentment towards Isaac. I believe that's why Claire and Sara bonded, they both had issues in common with Isaac. Everyone apparently had their own motives and agendas for what they did. Which of course brought conflict to the table. The unfortunate outcome was people died.
i didn't know anything about the first game and i enjoyed this a lot, to the point i put on hold watching dead space, which i'm a huge fan of but know what going to happen next, while deliver us mars kept me intrigued with it's story and characters the whole time. also enjoyed watching you solve the puzzles.
The story was interesting and well told. MacArthur was a bit cartoony and created half the problems himself i feel. But Isaac was fascinating. In the end tho Isaac was very selfish. It all boils down to the base decision to abandon earth and everyone on it.
He even admits in one of the recordings almost straight that its not that he could not help earth. He just did not want to help the people of earth. I am a pessimistic sort so i can understand not liking humanity. But when you are talking the survival of the entire human race taking a gamble on a planet that is even less survivable to begin with and dooming millions to death when you know of tech that can help them…. well there is just no moral justification no matter your opinion of humanity.
And just logistically a crumbling earth will still have more resources and manpower to use the miracle tech for effect then any colony ever would have. If you are gonna fix a planet always start with the one in the best condition already.
oh ya and the Homeward people where totally in the right. MacArthur already kidnapped them all under the point of a gun. After that arming yourself first is totally justified. They knew he would not hesitate to point a gun again when the unavoidable confrontation happens. Him killing everyone is just proving that point.
Man, I'm surprised it's already ending, I was engrossed from beginning to end. The voice acting in particular was amazing; just found out Sarah's VA is Nicole Tompkins, she was Jill Valentine in Resident Evil 3 Remake. If I had any criticisms, I felt like Claire was wasted potential; out of her and Kathy, she had as much incentive to reunite with her father because he was so awful to her. And having her die made her whole life look like a punching bag; I kept imagining how the final confrontation would've gone with her in it.
Also, not sure if there's going to be a third game, but I wish the story concluded and not throw in some sequel bait.
Feel like the writers specifically wants to go for an all out bad ending. It's almost like as though the people can't think for themselves except Sarah and Kathy. The colonist who finally reunited and stop having to choose between the tribes of Outward or Homewards, end up just passively farming, as much as they're trying to rebalance life there. It looks almost like the writers can't have a better approach than "We need to have 2 factions constantly fighting each other ".
Same thing for the Mission Opera crew. The only option they have is "get the tech, save Earth, fuck everyone else." However the way it looks at the end does prove what I felt at the end of Part 1 of Welonz gameplay. That Earth will also not be in the same shape, especially when you're sending your tech people out of space again. Which also brings to one weird question. What has Earth do since Deliver Us Moon? They've gotten control of the facility on the Moon, why aren't them trying to continue working on harvesting, reenergizing Earth and create a 2nd expedition to go find those traitors in Mars? Why did it still look like Earth is still grasping with the resources issue and when the launch happened it's with "whatever we can scrap together".
Some of this plot points does take me out of the story as it just tries to paint the various characters in 1 single dimension. I would have enjoyed more if we get Issac's pov much earlier to understand the weight of the revelation scene, instead we just get "Oh no it's not a distress call, it's to call for you to find me". Like, what?
Like others have point out too, Claire's death is so meaningless, not brought up, not mentioned, not even spoke of in the end except with a drown out speech by Issac. It's almost like they just want to trial Issac and make him look as heartless as possible. Such a waste of character. Ryan's story was instead done so well for a supporting cast, it helps a lot more given he is the level headed one and also one of the more supportive character in this game. I feel Sarah's angst also had taken too much screentime, so much of it becomes a drag and just taints her character. She was a survivor, but no, this game just keep making her suffer panic attack and PTSD at almost every other corner.
As for McArthur, if you are trying to prevent extinction, many things can be excused…
But if you are failing and blaming everyone but yourself, then you need to be replaced.
The main problem was that he had absolute power and so he did not have to listen to any opinion but his own, even though he was surrounded by supposedly the smartest people from Earth.
Next is Deliver us Earth, I guess?