What Even Is This?
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Tags, strange news updates, random ideas, serious and crack headcanons, this book has it all!
... In other words, it's my book of random crap.What a surprise, more Black Mesa-Power Up
And we're back once again, talking more about Black Mesa. What an unforeseeable surprise!
Power Up
"Power Up" always feels really short to me. I mean, it is compared to some chapters (I'm looking at you, "Surface Tension"), but it just feels like it goes by so fast? That's not to say it's not a great chapter, though. It actually has one of the most memorable moments/characters for me, and I think, as far as Gordon's own development, it's where he starts to realize that in order to for him to do what he needs to do, sacrifices are going to have to be made. (Or, I think it's where it really begins to sink in that he can't save everyone he comes across.)
The chapter is also where Gordon's reputation really starts to build, and not in a good way.
But anyway, starting the chapter, we come to what looks like a tramcar hub, and
Oh, look, for once, the HECU is shooting at something that isn't me!
But what exactly are they shooting at, then?
This guy here, Mr. Big Blue Stompy Flamethrower Hands. This guy is another "boss battle" type enemy, in that you can't harm him with any of your normal weapons, he's isolated to one room, and the entire chapter revolves around taking him out. (It's actually called a gargantua, but. I like Big Blue better. I feel like I read something somewhere calling it that, and I thought it was really funny? but I don't remember what, or where.)