Underscoring the game’s clever self-realization, Blue Manchu bestows upon it a comic book aesthetic, an effective art style given the game’s ever-present humor. Would you kindly take note that Void Bastards is devoid of any profound story element? In fact, the story is intentionally generic for comic effect, naming each player-character the Client. What I remember most about the Bioshock franchise are its Atlus-shattering plot twists, especially in Infinite. With promotional material boldly proclaiming that this game draws inspiration from Bioshock and System Shock, I had to give it the smell test. Word-of-mouth (and of course, a promo from Humble Bundle, who generously provided this review code) alerted me to this game. Though I have provided all of this reading material thus far, Void Bastards is a game that, for many, came out of nowhere. In the context of Void Bastards, the application is the latter-poor, expendable souls. Modern usages of “bastard” are arguably more vulgar, as its usage can range from a euphemism for “a**hole” to an inferior product, or one who deserves sympathy. In ye olden days, a bastard might have been competition for the (Game of) throne(s), or the shame of a mother the theology we practice in the 21st century however, remembers Psalm 127: 3-5, that “Children are a gift from the LORD they are a reward from him.” In modern times, we use terminology such as “single parent,” displacing the blame for the offspring’s existence away from him or her, and onto the (ir)responsible parties. Some of our readers may blush at the word “bastard,” for in some households, it is a “third-tier” swear, along with “hell” and “pissed (off).” Their discomfort is understandable considering the term’s etymology, derived from various European languages during the High Middle Ages, with meanings attached such as “illegitimate child,” “marriage,” “lust” and “kinship.” Therefore, the first definition is often a child born out of wedlock, and is thus “illegitimate” in terms of inheritance. As both an English scholar and man who as a child, frequently fielded the question, “Why do you and your brother have different last names?” I am well-acquainted with the term, not because anyone ever called me one, but because swears are often naturally the first words a curious child researches when armed with a dictionary for the first time. The first order of business should be addressing this game’s titular namesake, specifically, the word that my internet profanity filter censors. When I say the language is crude (but funny), I mean it!
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