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Jonathan Jacques-BelletĂȘte claimed Heng Sha was based off a mockumentary by WITTGENSTEIN 08/27/2011, 8:47am PDT






Shanghai's Heng Sha is a lot more into the trans-humanist thing. It's a lot more accepted there - it's the Silicon Valley of all cybernetics. Within the art direction everything that's more like that is more golden, and a lot more towards the cyber-renaissance. The dual layer is inspired by a mockumentary we saw quite a while ago, which appeared to be a real documentary about Hong Kong... In the game the idea isn't that it's the poor at the bottom and the rich at the top; the bottom used to be the Mecca of cybernetics, a lot of the headquarters of the great labs and manufacturing plants are there, it's just that when they built above it they chose a different architectural direction. So above they have new universities and new headquarters, but the bottom isn't a slum - there isn't an old school dichotomy. We put a lot of stuff in the game, like you'll see those student-types from the upper level coming downstairs at night to party, and hit the bars and brothels.


Really? Because I'm pretty sure it was based off a concept made by Square-Enix (which owns you guys) back in 1997. Jeez, I feel like Jerry Whorebach now.

Hm. City on top of a city. Very cyberpunk/Modern Gothic themed. Always dark below. WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS BEFORE


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Jonathan Jacques-BelletĂȘte claimed Heng Sha was based off a mockumentary by WITTGENSTEIN 08/27/2011, 8:47am PDT NEW
    He even denies the connection! by WITTGENSTEIN 08/27/2011, 8:57am PDT NEW
 
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